tea lady

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

From the tea lady to the trainees, Aitor Karanka insists on professionalism and a winning mentality from everyone at the Riverside.

From BBC • Aug. 12, 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