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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A house of entertainment in China and Japan, where tea and other light refreshments are served.

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Examples

  • It was a purple passage, just as Victor's wrecking of the tea-house in the Bonin

    Chapter 17 2010

  • As dead, which every tea-house in Peshawar knows, he is very interesting politically.

    shaykh abdalqadir, dec 2 2008

  • He dropped his dusty and threadbare knapsack at the tea-house and with her in hand started the climb at 7000 feet.

    Their Next 2010

  • As dead, which every tea-house in Peshawar knows, he is very interesting politically.

    14 « December « 2008 « Niqnaq 2008

  • In addition, the festival boasts the local premieres of some stellar new films, an installation of a 100-foot film loop, an underground tea-house, and movies with live soundtracks!

    Citizen Jane Film Festival October 17-19 in Columbia Missouri Melissa Silverstein 2008

  • Map in hand, I stroll throughout the Japanese Garden, with it's lily pond, bridge-covered streams, waterfalls and serene pools, past the tea-house changing room -- replicated from larger one she saw in Kyoto -- and the statue of Buddha that caused such a sensation when it was transported through the streets of Canandaigua on it's arrival here.

    SONNENBERG GARDENS, A TITANIC STORY 2007

  • I slept on the couch of my sister's apartment, not a fancy hotel, and often took my meals at a small tea-house in downtown Nairobi.

    An Honest Government, A Hopeful Future 2006

  • Soon after we came upon a little tea-house, and the Ainos showed me a straw package, and pointed to their open mouths, by which I understood that they wished to stop and eat.

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

  • In almost the smallest tea-house there are one or two rooms at the back, but all the life and interest are in the open front.

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

  • After running cheerily for several miles my men bowled me into a tea-house, where they ate and smoked while I sat in the garden, which consisted of baked mud, smooth stepping-stones, a little pond with some goldfish, a deformed pine, and a stone lantern.

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

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