tea lady
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Martyn got his professional football break for Bristol Rovers in 1987 after being recommended to their then manager Gerry Francis by the club's tea lady Vi Harris.
From BBC • May 11, 2026
“It was raining. I asked the tea lady, Mavis, if I could borrow her umbrella.”
From The Guardian • Oct. 1, 2018
Florizel Street was changed to Coronation Street because - as legend has it - a tea lady named Agnes remarked that Florizel sounded like the name of a disinfectant.
From BBC • Oct. 20, 2017
He is tea lady Long Joan Silver, the lynchpin in a plot involving Wendy's great-great-grandaughter, also called Wendy, Tinkerbell on a motorised scooter and the boy who still hasn't grown up, Peter.
From Reuters • Dec. 22, 2016
After tea, lady Feng hastened to lay out the cups and chopsticks.
From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft
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