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Definition of tea cosy in English: tea cosynoun A thick or padded cover placed over a teapot to keep the tea hot. Example sentencesExamples - Expect North Korea to start selling nuclear tea cosies within the decade.
- Or why not add pockets to the sides of a tea cosy and fill with rosemary.
- Like fish and chips and your gran's crocheted tea cosies, Victoria Wood is the very essence of Northern England in all its dark, satanic glory.
- Even our prime minister felt it necessary to proclaim his secular outlook by donning what looked like an inverted tea cosy on his head at his annual iftar.
- I think I must have looked a bit like a doll on a tea cosy!
- Only his wife was allowed to wash it, and it had to be dried on a tea cosy over a biscuit tin to keep its shape.
- To Josefina's delight, Beatrix was wearing a knitted tea cosy on her head, and when she laughed she rolled a little and slapped her knee with her small chubby hands.
- She started to make crafts from the material and has produced some very unusual crafts, cushions, tea cosies, aprons, bags and much more.
- The competition for September is the most interesting tea cosy.
- Mum gave it to my aunt who thought it was a tea cosy!
- Far from being risibly old-fashioned or nostalgic, the idea of knitting a tea cosy has enormous appeal for a whole generation of young women, as well as older ones.
- The only concession to summer is that most people have removed their hats except my grandmother (fifth from right) who is wearing a cross between a meringue and a tea cosy.
- Marjorie Bligh notably used plastic bags as woven tea cosies but didn't pretend there was anything other than ‘waste not - want not’ behind it.
- On the entrance floor level, the Winter Garden has a self-service restaurant and dining area and a shop where the emphasis is on fine art publications rather than tasteful tea cosies.
- After it was washed it was dried on a tea cosy that sits on a biscuit tin.
- It's a nicely worded piece, but I've pushed the bit about Mrs Burgess's collection of crocheted tea cosies up to the top.
- There must be something very strange in a man who, if left alone in a room with a tea cosy, doesn't try it on.
- Cavity wall insulation acts like a tea cosy, preventing heat from escaping from a house and keeping rooms warmer for longer.
- District-wide, Craven has a shortfall of 54,000 grammes of fluff that, potentially, could be recycled to make 30 news editor's tea cosies.
- That's why we're the country that invented the tea cosy.
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