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tea-board

tea-board is the alternative form of tea board.

Meaning of tea board

Noun

tea board (plural tea boards)

  1. (archaic) A board or tray for holding a tea set; a tea tray.
    • The newſpaper was immediately called for, if not brought in on the tea-board, from which he would ſcarcely lift his eyes while I poured out the tea,[…].1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, “[Maria: or, The] Wrongs of Woman”, in W[illiam] Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. […], volume II, London: […]...

Forms of tea-board

pluraltea-boards

Questions about tea-board

What is tea-board the alternative form of?
Tea-board is the alternative form of tea board.

Words near tea-board in the dictionary

  1. tea-and-toasters
  2. tea-bag
  3. tea-bagged
  4. tea-bagging
  5. tea-bags
  6. tea-board
  7. tea-boards
  8. tea-caddies
  9. tea-caddy
  10. tea-cake
  11. tea-cakes

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