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chai Mil. slang.|tʃaɪ|
[See cha; perh. borrowed afresh from Russian or Arabic.]
Tea. Cf. cha.
1919[see cha]. 1946Penguin New Writing XXVIII. 172 Here's a drop o' chai. 1959G. Slatter Gun in Hand vi. 141 Faces you'd meet..brewing up the chai in casas along the front.
▸ Any of various specific preparations of tea (typically associated with countries or regions where chai is the generic word for tea). Now esp. = masala chai n. at masala n. Compounds.
1957Chicago Daily Tribune 18 Apr. v. 4/3 Waitresses dressed in authentic costumes served typically near eastern food. The menu included..chai, tea specially prepared in a samovar. 1985N.Y. Times 24 Feb. xx. 14/2 We drank chai, the sweet Egyptian tea, and we ate bread baked in the sun the previous day. 1986H. Drysdale Alone through China & Tibet xiv. 160 Another man then looked in the bowl and guessed a price, and another waved a kettle of sweet milky tea which resembled Indian chai. 1991Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 6 Nov. We nervously finished a cup of very sweet chai (tea, flavoured with cinammon and cloves). 2005T. Hall Salaam Brick Lane i. 8 The café's chai was milky and sweet and flavoured with cardamoms.
▸ chai latte n. orig. N. Amer. a hot drink similar to masala chai, made with spiced tea (or a commercially produced concentrate) and steamed milk.
1994Oregonian 27 Dec. fd4/1 Heather likes to make *chai lattes, using steamed milk instead of milk heated in a saucepan. 2005J. Calloway Indispensable vi. 80 They..hang out with their friends who also don't like coffee but adore the chai lattes. |