souchongn.
/suːˈʃɒŋ/ One of the finer varieties of black tea. Also attributive.
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congou1725
souchong1761
campoi1842
Lapsang Souchong1883
Keemun1892
1761 Ann. Reg. 1760 132 The East-India ships..have brought..62,900 [lb.] of souchong.
1771 J. R. Forster tr. P. Osbeck Voy. China I. 248 Sutchong, or Sootchuen..is the dearest of all the brown teas.
1777 A. Adams in J. Adams & A. Adams Familiar Lett. (1876) 313 I feel as contented when I have breakfasted upon milk as ever I did with Hyson or Souchong.
1803 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 93 268 An ounce of Souchong tea produced 48 grains of tannin.
1850 E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 208 Now, animated by some very inferior Souchong from the village shop, I continue my letter.
1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood vi. 36 And finished his breakfast as if the flavor of the Superior Family Souchong..were a little on the wane.
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