Meanings
nountea board (plural tea boards)
plural tea boards · alternative tea-board · alternative teaboard
- archaicA board or tray for holding a tea set; a tea tray.
[…] they all four ascended to the parlour; where—[…]—the tea-board was at that moment being set out.
1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, “Is a Chapter of Love”, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC, page 2521 more example
The newſpaper was immediately called for, if not brought in on the tea-board, from which he would ſcarcely lift his eyes while I poured out the tea,[…].
1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, “[Maria: or, The] Wrongs of Woman”, in W[illiam] Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. […], volume II, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […]; and G[eorge,] G[eorge] and J[ohn] Robinson, […], →OCLC, chapter IX, page 14
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