Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A black Chinese tea, originally the choicest grade but later an inferior variety.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A general name for tea.
- noun An inferior kind of black tea, grown on the Woo-ye hills of China, or tea of a similar quality grown in other districts of the same country. See
tea .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Bohea tea, an inferior kind of black tea. See under
tea .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A black
tea fromChina . Originally referred to a high quality tea, now refers to a lower-grade tea.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Dr. Cunningham, physician to the English settlement at Cimsan, and Kampfer assert, that the bohea is the leaves of the first collection.
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An act to allow a drawback of the duties of customs on the exportation of tea to any of his Majesty's colonies or plantations in America; to increase the deposit on bohea tea to be sold at the East India Company's sales; and to empower the commissioners of the treasury to grant licences to the East India Company to export tea duty-free.
Bob Cesca: The Weird Contradictions of the Tea Bag Revolution 2009
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Jervas said that he would take chocolate; Alexander, bohea.
The Scandal of the Season Sophie Gee 2007
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Madame Speck said they always drank it; and so placing a teaspoonful of bohea in a cauldron of water, she placidly handed out this decoction, which we took with cakes and tartines.
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Young Smith, instead of his dinner and his wine, ought to be, where? — at the festive tea-table, to be sure, by the side of Miss Higgs, sipping the bohea, or tasting the harmless muffin; while old Mrs. Higgs looks on, pleased at their innocent dalliance, and my friend
The Book of Snobs 2006
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The snobbishness of Conversazione Snobs is very soon disposed of: as soon as that cup of washy bohea is handed to you in the tea-room; or the muddy remnant of ice that you grasp in the suffocating scuffle of the assembly upstairs.
The Book of Snobs 2006
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Jemima more than once during the time whilst the bohea was poured out.
Mens Wives 2006
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I was telling him of my head; he said he had been ill of the same disorder, and by all means forbid me bohea tea, which, he said, always gave it him; and that Dr. Radcliffe said it was very bad.
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The 'And please' must be a corruption of 'An it please,' which does make sense, but the rhyme cannot have been invented until later, for it certainly was not within the power of a fisherman to offer 'bohea,' or any other kind of tea, in those days.
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote
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Labrador tea began to take the place of green and bohea.
knitandpurl commented on the word bohea
"And have you seen this Miss Prunella Gentleman, of whom so much is said?" said Lady Throgmorton, as she sat supping a cup of black bohea with her friend Alethea Gray."
- Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho, p 226
November 14, 2015