tea cloth
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Cover with a damp tea cloth or plastic wrap, and let the rolls rise until they’re doubled in size.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2021
At the cost of hundreds of lives, the precious skins found their way to Siberia, were traded to eager Chinese for copper goods, tea, cloth.
From Time Magazine Archive
One creature tucked tracks under the tea cloth, whereat Mrs. Whitney's pinched nose was elevated.
From The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day by Stark, Harriet
The tea cloth may be a yard, a yard and a half, or two yards square.
From Etiquette by Post, Emily
A tea cloth worked by Russian peasants lay under the tea-cups—two only—of yellow Chinese egg-shell ware.
From The Incomplete Amorist by Nesbit, E. (Edith)
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