bed tea
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[edit]bed tea (countable and uncountable, plural bed teas)
- (India, Pakistan) A serving of tea shortly after awakening in the morning.
- 1991, Mark Tully, No Full Stops in India (1992 Penguin edition), →ISBN, (Google preview):
- Bed tea or chota hazari (small breakfast), as we used to know it when I was a child in Calcutta during the last days of the raj, is one of the luxuries of my life in India.
- 1996 April 13, Justine Hardy, “Travel: That elusive, smart and affordable hotel is only just around the corner”, in The Independent", UK, retrieved 24 March 2014:
- His cap and white gloves were perfect whether he was delivering the bed tea at 8am or bringing me a china hot water bottle just before midnight.
- 2013 June 6, "India's Top Romantic Resorts: Glenburn Tea, Estate Darjeeling, India Times (retrieved 24 March 2014):
- You'll be woken each morning with a tray of cookies and ‘bed-tea’, which is made using leaves plucked from the plantations outside your window.
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[edit]- “bed tea”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.