teataster

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1. A person who samples and grades tea quality.

   “A teataster. A man who tastes tea,” Newpole said patiently.

   1957, Benson, Ben, The running man: a Ralph Lindsey mystery, W. Morrow, page 25

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   Edison had an idea. Entering the store, he asked the teataster if he could Judge a cup himself. The man agreed, no doubt believing it would be helpful to have the verdict of a member of the public. And so Edison made a breakfast of a cup of tea.

   1989, Buranelli, Vincent, Thomas Alva Edison, Silver Burdett Press, page 27

   Lu Yu became famous for his talents as a teataster, his mastery of the method to prepare tea and for having written Cha Jing, the first book devoted to tea.

   2011, Tea: history, terroirs, varieties, Firefly Books, page 40