tea basket

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noun British.

a lunch basket or picnic hamper.

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Origin of tea basket

First recorded in 1900–05

Words nearby tea basket

tea, Tea Act, tea bag, teabagger, tea ball, tea basket, teaberry, tea biscuit, teabread, tea break, TEAC

How to use tea basket in a sentence

The smell of grilled meat mixes with the exotic wafts of cinnamon tea served with a mush of sweet brown dessert.
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A year before he had similarly arrived with news of the Boston Tea Party.
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Senseless bureaucracy is part of what spawned the Tea Party.
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“I happened upon yak butter tea, a traditional high-energy food eaten by Tibetans,” Asprey says.
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Adults prepare food and drink dark sweet tea on the doorsteps of their homes as they watch their children playing.
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Being quieted by the Captain with a draught of cold tea, and made to sit down, the examination of the book proceeded.
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Afterwards we saw you once or twice at tea at the Ritz, and you took off your hat, so you must have remembered then.
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Janet might have said before leaving: "Tea had better not wait too long--Hilda has to be down at Clayhanger's at half-past six."
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Here there was a scuffling sound in the basket, and the Roc rapped on the cover with her hard beak, and cried, "Hush!"
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About her neck was hung a covered basket and a door-key; and Davy at once concluded that she was Sindbad's house-keeper.
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