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bed tea

bed tea noun: a serving of tea shortly after awakening in the morning.

Noun

bed tea (countable and uncountable, plural bed teas)

  1. (India, Pakistan) A serving of tea shortly after awakening in the morning.
    • The day was pretty fully taken up by a well-defined routine: 6 a.m. chota-hazri (bed tea and some fruit); seven to eight, riding, bath, then breakfast at nine. . . .1955, S. K. Kirpalani, Fifty Years with the British, published 1993, →ISBN, page 92
    • 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.1991, Mark Tully, No Full Stops in India (1992 Penguin edition), (Google preview)

Forms of bed tea

pluralbed teas
alternative formbed-tea

Questions about bed tea

What does bed tea mean?
Bed tea means a serving of tea shortly after awakening in the morning.
What part of speech is bed tea?
Bed tea is a noun.
What is the plural of bed tea?
The plural of bed tea is bed teas.

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