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
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I had never ridden in a teapoy before and now I began a continuous trip in one which lasted eight hours.
From An African Adventure by Isaac Frederick Marcosson
On the couch stood a small teapoy, light and handy, of foreign lacquer, inlaid with gold.
From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly
All afternoon the teapoy men, after their fashion, carried on what was literally a running crossfire of questions among themselves.
From An African Adventure by Isaac Frederick Marcosson
A short time afterwards, he found nailed to a teapoy a paper scroll containing a jasmine flower tied up with coloured threads.
From Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston
I had none so the teapoy capita fished out a big red bandanna handkerchief, which he tied to a stick.
From An African Adventure by Isaac Frederick Marcosson
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