tea-cosy

But in retrospect I can see that our conversation was the journalistic equivalent of a tea-cosy.

And Furthermore by Judi Dench – review Kate Kellaway 2010

That is, my feet are in it; the rest of me is on the draining board, which I have padded with the dog's blanket and the tea-cosy.

Recommended Reading: I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith Jaime Theler 2008

Fraülein, still shaking with conflicting emotions, handed the tea-cosy to Captain Pratt.

Red Pottage 2004

She put the tea-cosy over the tea-pot, and rose to get a little glass for her violets.

Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

It's not your Unitarian grandma's tea-cosy religion; for one thing, Christian forgiveness seems in short supply.

Philocrites: 'Scriptural fidelity as fetishism.' 2004

Rachel bought an expensive tea-cosy from Fraülein.

Red Pottage 2004

It's not your Unitarian grandma's tea-cosy religion; for one thing, Christian forgiveness seems in short supply.

Philocrites: February 2004 Archives 2004

He looked like some kind of an Indian when he capered round the garden, an old tea-cosy on his head, beating a tin with his fist and yelling:

Dubliners 2003

The teapot was on a tray now, a tea-cosy in the shape of a King Charles spaniel keeping in the heat.

Mortal Causes Rankin, Ian 1994

Neither of them had any taste or much money, and except for a blue vase contributed by Pauline and a tea-cosy as plump as Alma herself given by Alma, the little study was as bare as in the holidays.

Fifth Formers at St. Clare's Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1967