tea tray

noun

1. a tray for carrying or holding articles used in serving tea.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tea tray¹

First recorded in 1765–75

Example Sentences

At her heels followed Vassilissa with a tea-tray full of sweets, preserves, cakes, etc.

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It was his typewriter, Miss Lindop, a young girl of some thirty-five years, holding a tea-tray.

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The trim maid brought in the tea-tray and proceeded to set it out on the little table in front of her mistress.

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On the carpet was a polished brass tea-tray, with an English service of green and gold, and some plates of preserves.

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Everything was ready in the gray parlor—the tea-tray on the table, the small urn hissing away, the tea-caddy in proximity to it.

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