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cambric tea

noun

  1. a mixture of hot water and milk, with sugar and, often, weak tea.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cambric tea1

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90
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Example Sentences

The tea came, magically--delicious cambric tea and cinnamon toast.

She knew how to make the cambric tea and to arrange the jelly and flowers.

Fact is, I've always been fond of cambric tea, and this is just right.

Once I sat in a high chair and wore a bib and banqueted on cambric-tea and prunes.

Young Lochinvar out of the west was mere cambric tea to him.

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