tea basket

American  

noun

British.

1. a lunch basket or picnic hamper.

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Etymology

Origin of tea basket

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

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tea basket

Nothing escaped the child, not even the elegant little tea basket with its fittings of silver and French china.

From The Automobile Girls Along the Hudson Fighting Fire in Sleepy Hollow by Crane, Laura Dent

Will you ask Mrs. Hills to express my tea basket and two cups?

From Jane Journeys On by Mitchell, Ruth Comfort

Only suppose she had brought a tea basket like mine!

From Molly Brown's College Friends by Speed, Nell

Funnel made of bamboo to allow the heated air from the choolahs to pass through the tea; it is seldom used; the Chinese tea manufacturers preferring one made in the tea basket by the hand.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

"There's a tea basket," she called over her shoulder.

From The Beauty and the Bolshevist by Miller, Alice Duer