cambric tea

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of cambric tea¹

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

Example Sentences

They sat the dolls about the table and went down to the kitchen for milk and hot water for the “cambric tea,” as Mrs. Adams called the beverage.

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No sweet crackers and ‘cambric tea’ for mine, if you please!”

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

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Dot had two plates of it, besides her pretty cup of cambric tea.

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I think there is still a little milk, for it didn’t take much for the cambric tea, and we can have more of that.

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