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tea garden

noun
  1. a tea plantation.
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Origin of tea garden

First recorded in 1795–1805
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Examples from the Web for tea garden

Historical Examples

  • I'll see if I'm to be domineered over by a image out of a tea-garden.

    The Tinted Venus

    F. Anstey

  • Then some truly enterprising person took it on as a lodging-house for summer visitors, also for a tea-garden for motorists.

  • The tea-garden coolies had been for a long time smarting under acute grievances.

    Chitta Ranjan

    Sukumar Ranjan Das

  • I found a tea-garden situated on a green plateau far up a flight of steps, with pretty girls smiling on every step.

    From Sea to Sea

    Rudyard Kipling

  • With a shriek of fear he ran out of the tea-garden, swam across the river, and hid himself inside the great temple bell.

    Myths & Legends of Japan

    F. Hadland (Frederick Hadland) Davis

British Dictionary definitions for tea garden

tea garden

noun
  1. an open-air restaurant that serves tea and light refreshments
  2. a tea plantation
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