tea-cup

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Noun

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tea-cup (plural tea-cups)

  1. Alternative form of teacup
    • 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XVI, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, [], →OCLC, page 344:
      Mrs. Meadows secunda, looked round with sovereign contempt on the bits of tea-cups, old china bowls, and other articles treasured up by Mrs. Meadows prima, and lost a sentence or two of what Mr. Meadows was saying in the survey.