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Tea-strainer   Listen
Tea-strainer

noun
1.
A device to keep back tea leaves when pouring a cup of tea.





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"Tea-strainer" Quotes from Famous Books



... that common people can be most agreeable," Mrs. Corey patronized. Before Claire could kill her—there wasn't any homicidal weapon in sight except a silver tea-strainer—Mrs. Corey had pirouetted on, "Though I do think that we're much too kind to workmen and all—the labor situation is getting to be abominable here in the West, and upon my word, to keep a maid nowadays, you have to treat her as though she ...
— Free Air • Sinclair Lewis
... please; the gold fish swarm: Mr. Bentley carried a dozen to town t'other day in a decanter. You would be entertained with our fishing; instead of nets, and rods and lines, and worms, we use nothing but a pail and a basin and a tea-strainer, which I persuade my neighbours is the Chinese method. Adieu! My ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole


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