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cambric tea
noun
- 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.
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She knew how to make the cambric tea and to arrange the jelly and flowers.
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Fact is, I've always been fond of cambric tea, and this is just right.
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Once I sat in a high chair and wore a bib and banqueted on cambric-tea and prunes.
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Young Lochinvar out of the west was mere cambric tea to him.
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