tea kitchen

noun

noun

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:

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