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ˈtea-ˌgarden
1. A garden or open-air enclosure, connected with a house of entertainment, where tea and other refreshments are served.
1802Picture of London 370 Shepherd and Shepherdess Tea Gardens, &c., City Road... Much frequented in the summer time by tea parties, &c. 1829De Vega Jrnl. Tour ix. (1847) 81 A charge of three-pence is demanded on entering the delightful ‘Tea Gardens’. 1900Daily News 12 Nov. 6/3 Tea garden resorts..have entirely vanished.
2. A plantation in which tea-plants are grown. (Cf. hop-garden.)
1882Spons Encycl. Manuf. v. 1994 There is scarcely a tea-garden but what is mainly filled with hybrids..between these two species [Thea chinensis and T. assamica]. 1888J. Paton in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 98/2 Undulating well-watered tracts..are the most valuable for tea-gardens.
Hence ˈtea-ˌgardened a., having a tea-garden; ˈtea-ˌgardener, the keeper of, or a worker in, a tea-garden; ˈtea-ˌgardeny a., colloq. resembling, or having the style of, a tea-garden (sense 1).
1843Thackeray Irish Sk.-Bk. vii, What a prim,..green-railinged, tea-gardened, gravel-walked place would it have been. 1862G. H. Kingsley Sport & Trav. (1900) 368 The public gardens, small and insignificant enough, indeed a little tea-gardeny. 1879Dickens's Dict. Thames (1880) 120/2 There is little..of the ancient abbey to be found among the present tea-gardeny ruins. 1903Daily Chron. 16 Sept. 6/7 Miura, a [Japanese] tea gardener, assures his young and pretty wife Ohana that she is unsightly. |