tea-of-heaven

[ tee-uhv-hev-uhn ]

/ ˈti əvˈhɛv ən /

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noun

a shrub, Hydrangea macrophylla serrata, of the saxifrage family, native to Japan and Korea, having hairy, ovate leaves and flat or slightly arched clusters of blue or white flowers.

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How to use tea-of-heaven 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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The Dallas Cowboys sell out their state-of-the art football stadium.
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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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Being quieted by the Captain with a draught of cold tea, and made to sit down, the examination of the book proceeded.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
Afterwards we saw you once or twice at tea at the Ritz, and you took off your hat, so you must have remembered then.
Rosemary in Search of a Father|C. N. Williamson
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."
Hilda Lessways|Arnold Bennett
Decide about it, ye that are learned in the ethnographic distinctions of our race—but heaven defend us from the Bourbonnaises!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
And if an earthly father would act thus wisely and thus kindly, "how much more your Father which is in Heaven?"
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford