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pekoe, n.|ˈpɛkəʊ, ˈpiːkəʊ|
Also 8 peco, pecko, peckho.
[From Chinese: in Amoy dialect pek-ho, in Cantonese pak-ho; from pek, pak = Mandarin peh, pai white + ho, Mandarin hao down, hair.]
A superior kind of black tea, so called from the leaves being picked young with the down still on them.
1712Addison Spect. No. 328 Coffee, Chocolate, Green, Imperial, Peco, and Bohea-Tea seem to be Trifles. 1771J. R. Forster tr. Osbeck's Voy. I. 250 Back-ho, or Pack-ho, is that which we call Peckho, which has leaves with dots. 1859Sala Tw. round Clock (1861) 141 The huge tea ware⁓houses, where..the flowery Pekoe or the family Souchong, slumbers in tin-foiled chests.
Hence ˈpekoe v. trans., to mix with pekoe tea.
1892Walsh Tea (Philad.) 182 A choice or ‘pekoed’ Formosa will be found the most desirable and valuable. Ibid. 184 If the Assam be ‘pekoed’ so much the better. |