thick tea

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. High tea or an informal late afternoon or early evening meal, more substantial than afternoon tea. UK,dated
    — Her appearance, her dress, her manners; what they were pleased to term her "stand-offishness"; her shortcomings as a housekeeper; her ignorance in the matter of mending under-linen; her novel-reading and piano- playing — all these had been toothsome morsels, far more enjoyable than the heavy pies, the thick chops, and the sardines which figured in that horrible Mesopotamian meal known as a "thick tea;" and had been picked to the very bone.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see thick, tea.
    — Americans prefer 'pointy,' light- flavored, high-grown teas from Dimbula or Nuwara Eliya; the English like 'thick' teas, with more body, from Uva," he explained.

词形变化

thick teas plural
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