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Definition of Tea caddy
1. Noun. A can for storing tea.
Definition of Tea caddy
1. Noun. A box, tin, jar or pot used to store tea leaves. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tea Caddy
Literary usage of Tea caddy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland: A Genealogical by Joshua Dorsey Warfield (1905)
"... inherited "my ciphered china and tea caddy," or, if he preferred, one hundred
dollars instead, the said china to go to niece Ann Ridgely Worthington, ..."
2. The Woman's Book: Dealing Practically with the Modern Conditions of Home (1894)
"Délit Tea-caddy. Modern methods of serving have redistributed the relative
importance of the different departments of table ware. When the soup, the meat, ..."
3. Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle (1860)
"but he declined to do so. lie, however, received from him a small tea-caddy,
which is noir in the possession of his son, the Bev. James Fanons, of York, ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"TEA-CADDY, a box, jar, canister or other receptacle for lea. The word is believed
to be derived from fatty, the Chinese pound, equal to about a pound and a ..."
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