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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On the teapoy were arrayed cups, bowls, foreign cloth napkins and such things.
From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly
At her side was a Chinese teapoy, a nest of lacquer tables, and on it stood a small, squat idol.
From The Copy-Cat and Other Stories by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
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
On the teapoy on the left, were spread out Wen Wang tripods, spoons, chopsticks and scent-bottles.
From Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly
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 E. W. (Edmund William) Forrest
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