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tea kitchen

tea kitchen noun: a tea-urn.

Noun

tea kitchen (plural tea kitchens)

  1. (dated) A tea-urn.
    • Through half-opened hall doors you might see the powdered servant, or the sprightly maid in her mob-cap in hot haste steaming away with the red japanned 'tea kitchen' into the parlour. The town of Chapelizod, in short, was just sitting down to its breakfast.1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

Forms of tea kitchen

pluraltea kitchens

Questions about tea kitchen

What does tea kitchen mean?
Tea kitchen means a tea-urn.
What part of speech is tea kitchen?
Tea kitchen is a noun.
What is the plural of tea kitchen?
The plural of tea kitchen is tea kitchens.

Words near tea kitchen in the dictionary

  1. tea houses
  2. tea jennies
  3. tea jenny
  4. tea kettle
  5. tea kettles
  6. tea kitchen
  7. tea kitchens
  8. tea ladies
  9. tea lady
  10. tea lead
  11. tea leaf

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