| 单词 | kaffir tea |
| 释义 | > as lemmaskaffir tea kaffir tea n. [after South African Dutch kafferthee (1849 or earlier)] any of various southern African plants used to make teas, including species of Helichrysum (esp. H. nudifolium) and Athrixia (family Asteraceae) and Cyclopia and Aspalathus (family Leguminosae); tea made from such a plant; cf. bush tea n. at bush n.1 Compounds 2, rooibos n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > tea-plant > [noun] > types of herb of Paraguay1672 Indian tea1709 Algerian tea1728 Appalachian tea1728 Arabian tea1728 Canary tea1728 golden rod tea1728 Malay tea1728 Paraguay1728 South Sea tea1728 monarda1752 Oswego tea1752 Paraguay tea1760 Labrador tea1767 maté1768 marsh rosemary1777 blue mountain tea1785 alstonia1806 Ceylon tea1814 Canada tea1817 yerba-maté1818 honey bush1840 Wild Bergamot1843 Hottentot tea1850 kaffir tea1850 khat1858 Brazil tea1866 Mexican tea1866 St. Helena tea1875 rooibos1915 redbush1946 Hudson's Bay tea1948 bergamot1958 1850 L. Pappe Floræ Capensis Medicæ Prodromus 17 Helichrysum nudifolium... The whole of this plant, here called Caffer-tea, is demulcent, and, in the form of infusion, recommended in catarrh, phthisis, and other pulmonary affections. 1851 J. J. Freeman Tour S. Afr. xv. 362 One kind hearted woman..prepared a Kaffir meal for us—a pot of sour-milk, some Kaffir corn bread and some Kaffir tea. 1949 L. G. Green In Land of Afternoon 55 Bush tea is popular in the fashionable cafes of the United States. They call it ‘Kaffir tea’ over there. 2009 J. L. Comaroff & J. Comaroff Ethnicity, Inc. iii. 36 It may not have helped her cause that she first sold it as ‘Kaffir Tea’; the K-word to black Africans has approximately the same connotation as the N-word has to black Americans, except that the former never use it of or among themselves. < as lemmas |
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