tea-gardenn.
1. A garden or open-air enclosure, connected with a house of entertainment, where tea and other refreshments are served.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > eating-house or restaurant > café or tearoom
tearoom1733
café1802
tea-garden1802
estaminet1814
cafeteria1839
coffee palace1879
coffee parlour1894
zinc1914
caff1931
pull-in1938
transport café1938
pantry1948
relais1957
kayf1962
izakaya1987
1802 J. Feltham Picture of London 370 Shepherd and Shepherdess Tea Gardens, &c., City Road... Much frequented in the summer time by tea parties, &c.
1829 ‘Juan de Vega’ Jrnl. Tour (1847) ix. 81 A charge of three-pence is demanded on entering the delightful ‘Tea Gardens’.
1900 Daily News 12 Nov. 6/3 Tea garden resorts..have entirely vanished.
2. A plantation in which tea-plants are grown. (Cf. hop-garden n.)
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of specific crops > [noun] > tea > tea plantation
tea-garden1882
1882 Spons' 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].
1888 J. Paton in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 98/2 Undulating well-watered tracts..are the most valuable for tea-gardens.
Derivatives
ˈtea-ˌgardened adj. having a tea-garden.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [adjective] > having gardens > specifically a tea-garden
tea-gardened1843
1843 W. M. Thackeray Irish Sketch-bk. I. vii. 148 What a prim,..green-railinged, tea-gardened, gravel-walked place would it have been.
ˈtea-ˌgardener n. the keeper of, or a worker in, a tea-garden.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > gardener > [noun] > types of gardener
arborist1578
nursery gardener1629
nurseryman1629
raiser1707
kitchen gardener1709
market gardener1727
curator1761
landscape-gardenera1763
plannerc1770
mail-gardener1798
landscape architect1863
trucker1868
plantsman1881
weekend gardener1884
groundsman1886
rock gardener1886
tea-gardener1903
landscapist1936
wild gardener1966
1903 Daily Chron. 16 Sept. 6/7 Miura, a [Japanese] tea gardener, assures his young and pretty wife Ohana that she is unsightly.
ˈtea-ˌgardeny adj. colloquial resembling, or having the style of, a tea-garden (sense 1).
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > of little importance or trivial
eathlyc890
lighteOE
littleOE
small?c1225
singlec1449
easy1474
triflous1509
naughty1526
slender1530
slight1548
shrimpish1549
slipper1567
truanta1572
toyous1581
trivious1583
mean1585
silly1587
nicea1594
puny?1594
puisne1598
pusill1599
whindling1601
sapless1602
non-significant1603
poor1603
unsignificant1603
flea-bite1605
perishing1605
lank1607
weightless1610
fonda1616
penny farthing1615
triviala1616
unweighty1621
transitory1637
twattling1651
inconsiderate1655
unserious1655
nugal1656
small drink1656
slighty1662
minute1668
paddling1679
snitling1682
retail1697
Lilliputian1726
vain1731
rattletrap1760
peppercornish1762
peppercorn1791
underling1804
venial1806
lightweight1809
floccinaucical1826
small-bore1833
minified1837
trantlum1838
piffling1848
tea-tabular1855
potty1860
whipping-snapping1861
tea-gardeny1862
quiddling1863
twaddling1863
fidgeting1865
penny ante1865
feather-weighted1870
jerkwater1877
midget1879
mimsy1880
shirttail1881
two-by-four1885
footle1894
skittery1905
footery1929
Mickey Mouse1931
chickenshit1934
minoritized1945
marginal1952
marginalized1961
tea-party1961
little league1962
marginalizing1977
minnowy1991
1862 G. H. Kingsley Sport & Trav. (1900) 368 The public gardens, small and insignificant enough, indeed a little tea-gardeny.
1879 Dickens's Dict. Thames (1880) 120/2 There is little..of the ancient abbey to be found among the present tea-gardeny ruins.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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