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Tea leaf   /ti lif/   Listen
Tea leaf

noun
1.
Dried leaves of the tea shrub; used to make tea.  Synonym: tea.  "They threw the tea into Boston harbor"






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"Tea leaf" Quotes from Famous Books



... None has been exported. If it were not a remarkably good article the foreign would be preferred, as we all know a domestic article has a world of prejudice to overcome at first. I shall watch the Ceylon tea question with interest, and hope that at some not distant day the production of tea leaf may rival ...
— Round the World • Andrew Carnegie

... up with their cues hitcht to a canal bote snakin' it along at the rate of a mile inside of 2 hours. "G'lang! Tea leaf." ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 • Various

... The tea leaf is plucked from the plant by the manufacturers at three periods during the spring, which crops they call, in their technical phrase, the head, or first spring; the second spring; and the third spring. The ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12, - Issue 343, November 29, 1828 • Various



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