Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tray for serving tea, transporting tea-things, etc.
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Examples
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The maid positively twinkled as she gathered up the tea-tray and prepared to leave.
red dust Ryn Cricket 2010
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Shaw's production, enacted on a split-level platform in Tom Pye's clean design, lit by Peter Mumford, bristles with detail: the maid who trips on the bottom stair, the housekeeper who brings menace to the simple act of carrying a tea-tray.
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She noticed the letters and notes heaped on the table among his gloves and sticks; then she found herself in a small library, dark but cheerful, with its walls of books, a pleasantly faded Turkey rug, a littered desk and, as he had foretold, a tea-tray on a low table near the window.
Lemon Cake (Novel Food: Winter 2007 Edition) « Baking History 2007
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She noticed the letters and notes heaped on the table among his gloves and sticks; then she found herself in a small library, dark but cheerful, with its walls of books, a pleasantly faded Turkey rug, a littered desk and, as he had foretold, a tea-tray on a low table near the window.
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Reply like a tea-tray in the sky: » selling the blogosphere says:
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Reply like a tea-tray in the sky: » more Katrina says:
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A doctor was fetched to my own mother by my own father, when it took place on a common; and in consequence of his being a very kind gentleman, and accepting no fee but a tea-tray, I was named Doctor, out of gratitude and compliment to him.
Doctor Marigold 2007
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A doctor was fetched to my own mother by my own father, when it took place on a common; and in consequence of his being a very kind gentleman, and accepting no fee but a tea-tray, I was named Doctor, out of gratitude and compliment to him.
Doctor Marigold 2007
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Reply like a tea-tray in the sky: » Back in pajamas. says:
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Dick began to retreat with a dissatisfied wrinkling of face, and a farewell glance at the cosy tea-tray.
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