单词 | imperial tea |
释义 | > as lemmasimperial tea imperial tea n. a kind of fine green tea, usually made from small tender leaves picked early in the year. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > tea manufacture > [noun] > types of dry tea > green tea imperial tea1699 imperial1713 green1728 gunpowder1771 cow-slip tea1796 Twankay1840 Jack the Painter1848 1699 J. Ovington Ess. Tea 13 The third Sort is Bing, or Imperial Tea. 1795 A. Anderson Narr. Brit. Embassy China 186 That shrub which bears what is called the Imperial and gunpowder teas. 1892 J. M. Walsh Tea 74 The true Imperial tea..known in China as..the ‘perfection of tea’. 1992 A. Bell tr. M. Toussaint-Samat Hist. Food xx. 604 The best known kinds are gunpowder tea, in which the leaves have been rolled up like beads, and imperial tea, with flat leaves. < as lemmas |
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