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tea-tray

tea-tray is the alternative form of tea tray.

Meaning of tea tray

Noun

tea tray (plural tea trays)

  1. A tray for holding a tea service.
    • Jingling in with the tea-tray, she absolutely trod on him. And exclaimed indignantly, "Jasper, you wicked dog, you nearly upset me."1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 145

Forms of tea-tray

pluraltea-trays

Questions about tea-tray

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

Words near tea-tray in the dictionary

  1. tea-things
  2. tea-time
  3. tea-times
  4. tea-towel
  5. tea-towels
  6. tea-tray
  7. tea-trays
  8. tea-urn
  9. tea-urns
  10. tea-water
  11. tea-waters

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