tea tray
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tea tray
First recorded in 1765–75
Example Sentences
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For he discovered skeleton, or as he describes it hurtling down the ice-covered track head first on a "very expensive tea tray."
From Barron's ● Feb. 14, 2026
In the show we find him turning the design for a divination board into a tea tray, and carving a portrait of a British official dressed in conspicuously snazzy Yoruba slippers and a pith helmet.
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2022
But let's step away from the afternoon tea tray, and instead, imagine something more like Moroccan pastilla, the pigeon or rabbit filo pie studded with almonds, scented with cinnamon, and dusted with powdered sugar.
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2021
Dream movie moment: Cora, who sometimes seems a few scones short of a tea tray, wises up and leaves fuddy-duddy Robert for a dashing London financier played by Hugh Grant.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2019
“A packet of red paste and a tea tray, which might be iron or pewter.”
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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