tea-board

A form of tea board — A board or tray for holding a tea set; a tea tray.

Meanings

nountea-board (plural tea-boards)

plural tea-boards

  1. alternativeAlternative form of tea board.

    […] 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 252
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    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

    […] James brought in the tea-board, with its genuine China tea-service, plates with cake and bread-and-butter, and, whilst he went back to Kezia for the tea-urn, in walked Mr. Ashton, and with him the Rev. Joshua Brookes.

    1876, Mrs. G[eorge] Linnæus Banks [i.e., Isabella Banks], “Wounded”, in The Manchester Man, volume II, London: Hurst and Blackett, […], page 79
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