Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small table incorporating a tea chest.
- noun A small decorative three-legged table.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Originally, a small three-legged table or stand; hence, by extension, a small table for the tea-service, having three or four legs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An ornamental stand, usually with three legs, having caddies for holding tea.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a small
decorative table having threelegs ; sometimes used for holding atea service
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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A teapoy is usually a hammock slung on a pole carried on the shoulders of natives.
An African Adventure Isaac Frederick Marcosson 1918
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She set it on a glass-topped teapoy in front of the chair.
Call to Treason Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2004
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On the teapoy were arrayed cups, bowls, foreign cloth napkins and such things.
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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On the teapoy on the left, were spread out Wen Wang tripods, spoons, chopsticks and scent-bottles.
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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Neither should any banquet be spread, but a high teapoy can be placed in front of each, with one or two things to suit our particular tastes.
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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No table stood below the couch, but only a high teapoy.
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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Feeling his hand tired, he dropped the book he held, leant his head on a teapoy, and fell asleep.
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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She herself, nevertheless, felt too listless to join the banquet, so simply reclining on a sofa of the inner room, she looked at the plays in company with Mrs. Hsüeh; and choosing several kinds of such eatables as were to her taste, she placed them on a small teapoy, and now helped herself to some, and now talked, as the fancy took her.
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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On the teapoy on the right, were vases from the Ju
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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The rest of the inmates had, all alike, a chair and a teapoy.
Hung Lou Meng 2003
qms commented on the word teapoy
A memorable tiffin gives joy
From the delicate gear you deploy.
It's always more swank
If the tea that you drank
Was served from a little teapoy.
June 28, 2016