tisane
/tɪˈzan
/noun
A herb tea.Elderflowers have been made into teas or tisanes in Europe and by N. American Indians, largely for medicinal use and especially as an antidote against colds....
- On crisp spring days I often make a tisane or a rose tea, take it into the garden and wrap myself in a big warm blanket.
- There are espressos, cappuccinos, mochaccinos, lattés, teas, tisanes and a wide assortment of more exotically flavoured coffee-based potions that would definitely put a little motion in your ocean, if you know what I mean.
Origin
1930s: from French.
Rhymes
- the Reconstruction
- the red planet
- therefor
- therefore
- therefrom
- the Regency
- there goes ——
- therein
- thereinafter
- thereinbefore
- thereinto
- there is little (or nothing) to choose between
- there is method in someone's madness
- there is no harm in ——
- there is no help for it
- there is no holding someone
- there is no knowing
- there is no mistaking ——
- there is no rose without a thorn
- there is no saying
- there is no telling
- there is nothing like
- there is nothing to it
- (there is) no time like the present
- there is only one thing for it