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tea-cup en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of teacup.
    alt of teacup
    • Mrs. Meadows secunda, looked round with sovereign contempt on the bits of tea-cups, old china bowls, and other articles treasured up by Mrs. Meadows prima, and lost a sentence or two of what Mr. Meadows was saying in the survey. 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XVI, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 344:

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