tea lady

British  

noun

1. a woman employed in a factory, office, etc to make tea during a tea break

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tea lady

The tea lady next to her was so shaken that her tray fell out of her hands.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2023

After all, it’s only in a Richard Curtis movie that a posh British man ends up with an English tea lady.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 9, 2017

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

"Since you've had some of our tea," lady Feng laughed, "how is it that you have not yet become a wife in our household?"

From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft