tea tray
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tea tray
First recorded in 1765–75
Example Sentences
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For he discovered skeleton, or as he describes it hurtling down the ice-covered track head first on a "very expensive tea tray."
From Barron's
She had stuck a bunch of miniature plastic trees onto an old tea tray.
From Literature
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Fresh tea trays were delivered on the half hour and the empty cups whisked away.
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“It even took the tea tray,” said Samir with a sigh.
From Literature
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In the show we find him turning the design for a divination board into a tea tray, and carving a portrait of a British official dressed in conspicuously snazzy Yoruba slippers and a pith helmet.
From New York Times
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