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单词 white tea
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white tea
white tea n. (a) tea that is processed so as to prevent fermentation before drying, typically producing a light-coloured beverage; (also) a particular variety of this; cf. black tea n. (a) at black adj. and n. Compounds 1e(a), green tea n. at green adj. and n.1 Compounds 1d(a); (b) (chiefly British) tea served with milk or cream; (also) a drink of this; cf. white coffee n. [In sense (a) ultimately after Chinese báichá (12th cent.; < bái white +chá tea: see cha n.). With quot. 1899 compare Japanese shirocha (rare; after Chinese).]
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1899 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 17 Nov. 9/1 Martha concocted some of the marvelous white tea you brought back from Japan.
1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Mar. 220/4 The twelfth-century Emperor Kiasung.., who wrote a dissertation upon the twenty kinds of rare tea, the rarest of all being the white tea, for which he had made search.
1964 Times 15 Feb. 9/6 The prospect of ‘lamb's fry and white tea’ for breakfast is unexpectedly heartening.
1985 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 27 Oct. x. 14/1 The best of the white teas, the Fujian flowery silver pekoe.
1991 Grocer 20 July 30/2 The brand, Britain's first instant white tea, evidently responds well to TV advertising.
2009 Independent 9 Nov. (Life section) 12/4 White tea comes from the youngest, freshest buds of the tea plant.
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