teapoy
Americannoun
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a small three-legged table or stand.
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a small table for use in serving tea.
noun
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a small table or stand with a tripod base
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a tea caddy on such a table or stand
Etymology
Origin of teapoy
1820–30; < Hindi tīpāi, alteration (with t- from tir- three < Sanskrit tri ) of Persian si-pāya three-legged stand
Example Sentences
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After we had thus been seated for about five minutes there was a rap on the leg of the teapoy.
From Indian Ghost Stories Second Edition by Mukerji, S.
Search was immediately made for the Begum, and while looking for this mutiness Princess in one of her apartments, Carlton took up from a teapoy or dressing table, a small but curiously carved steel casket.
From Vellenaux A Novel by Forrest, E. W. (Edmund William)
No table stood below the couch, but only a high teapoy.
From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft
He takes his meerschaum from the teapoy by his side and examines it critically.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 by Various
The fact that I had to resort to the teapoy illustrates the unreliability of mechanical transport in the wilds.
From An African Adventure by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick
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