Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of light spongy bread or bun, sometimes slightly sweetened, to be eaten with tea.
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Examples
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Here is a closer look at the delicious cranberry tea-bread.
Archive 2005-11-01 Nupur 2005
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But now she slept in the next bed over from Sarah's, and they shared many late-night giggles and confidences, instead of leftover tea-bread.
Werehunter Lackey, Mercedes 1999
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Mrs. Gaskell's "Cranford" is full of the most delicate but veritable humor, as her allusion to the genteel and cheerful poverty of the lady who, in giving a tea-party, "now sat in state, pretending not to know what cakes were sent up, though she knew, and we knew, and she knew that we knew; and we knew that she knew that we knew she had been busy all the morning making tea-bread and sponge-cakes."
The Wit of Women Fourth Edition Kate Sanborn 1878
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Jacobi laughed too, kissed Elise's hand, and then hastened to mingle in the group of young people, who assembled themselves round the tea-table to see and to pass judgment on an extraordinary kind of tea-bread wherewith Louise would welcome her bridegroom, and which, according to her opinion, besides the freshest freshness, was possessed of many wonderful qualities.
The Home Fredrika Bremer 1833
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It's good stuff but it's nothing like the tea-bread I've been making recently.
A Wee Bit of Cooking 2009
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It's good stuff but it's nothing like the tea-bread I've been making recently.
A Wee Bit of Cooking 2009
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