Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Finely comminuted tea as an incident of manufactun. See
tea-fannings .
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Examples
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The tea-dust is mixed with hot water by means of a curiously splintered bamboo mixer that looks very much like a shaving-brush.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894
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"That means, I suppose, bosun," replied Mr Mackay laughing and coughing as the tea-dust caught his breath, "that I don't -- eh?"
Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea William Heysham Overend 1874
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By dint of taking all the lead out of the tea-chests, shaking it, and collecting every pinch of tea-dust, we got enough to make a teapot of the weakest tea, a cup of which I took to my poor crying maids in their beds, having first put a spoonful of the last bottle of whisky which the house possessed into it, for there was neither, sugar nor. milk to be had.
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"I came only for sixpenn'orth of tea-dust," the girl said, with a faltering voice; "but oh, I should like to hear you speak on for ever!"
Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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“I came only for sixpenn’orth of tea-dust,” the girl said, with a faltering voice; “but oh, I should like to hear you speak on for ever!”
Burlesques 2006
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“I came only for sixpenn’orth of tea-dust,” the girl said, with a faltering voice; “but oh, I should like to hear you speak on for ever!”
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