a kind of fine green tea, usually made from small tender leaves picked early in the year.
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| 释义 | the world > food and drink > drink > tea manufacture > [noun] > types of dry tea > green tea (7) imperial tea1699 a kind of fine green tea, usually made from small tender leaves picked early in the year. imperial1713 An article of special size or quality. Cf. sense A. 9, compounds. = imperial tea n. at compounds. green1728 = green tea n. at compounds 1d(a). gunpowder1771 (In full, gunpowder tea.) A fine kind of green tea, each leaf of which is rolled up, so that it has a granular appearance. cow-slip tea1796 a drink made by infusion of the flowers of the cowslip; also formerly a name for a variety of green tea (quot. 1796). Twankay1840 A variety of green tea (in full Twankay tea), properly that from the place so called (see above), but also applied to blends of this with other… Jack the Painter1848 a coarse green tea drunk in the Australian bush. |
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