tea pot

plural tea pots

1. alternativeAlternative form of teapot.

   We have reduced our entire line of Brown Tea Pots—Yellow Bowls and Cookingware.

   1886 February 1, The Sun, volume XCVIII, number 66, Baltimore, Md.

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   You may make this syllabub at home, by having new milk made as warm as from the cow, and pouring it out of a tea pot, or any other vessel with a spout, holding your hand very high.

   1800, H. Glass [Hannah Glasse], Maria Wilson, “Syllabubs, Blanc-mange, Flummery, &c.”, in The Complete Confectioner; or, Housekeeper's Guide: To a Simple and Speedy Method of Understanding the Whole Art of Confectionary; …, London: […] J. W. Myers, […], for West and Hughes, […], →OCLC, pages 184–185

   Although she was a rich lady, she maintained some of her peasant mannerisms, like bringing out her age-greasened basket tea cosy which held the old tea pot and four cups inside.

   1988, Catherine Dai, Bound feet, page 200