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tea caddies

tea caddies is the plural of tea caddy.

Meaning of tea caddy

Noun

tea caddy (plural tea caddies)

  1. A box, jar, pot, or tin used to store tea leaves.
    • Mrs. Hone would have owned all the equipage that most upper-middle-class households needed to hold a proper tea, including a tea table (or teapoy), a tray, a teapot, creamer, sugar bowl with tongs, cups, saucers, tea caddy, teaspoons, and likely a tea urn, slop bowl, strainer, and spoon tray. While...2019, Nancy E. Davis, “Afong Moy Presents Chinese Objects for the Home”, in The Chinese Lady: Afong Moy in Early America, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part II (The Show), page 107

Questions about tea caddies

What is tea caddies the plural of?
Tea caddies is the plural of tea caddy.

Words near tea caddies in the dictionary

  1. tea breaks
  2. tea buffet
  3. tea buffets
  4. tea bush
  5. tea bushes
  6. tea caddies
  7. tea caddy
  8. tea candle
  9. tea candles
  10. tea card
  11. tea cards

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