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Definition of Tea parlour
1. Noun. A restaurant where tea and light meals are available.
Specialized synonyms: Buttery
Generic synonyms: Eatery, Eating House, Eating Place, Restaurant
Geographical relationships: Britain, Great Britain, U.k., Uk, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tea Parlour
Literary usage of Tea parlour
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Fortnightly Review (1866)
"... and that the tea parlour had been made to look as pleasant as was possible
with an inn parlour. She was very nervous as she stood upon the platform ..."
2. Memoirs of Karoline Bauer: From the German by Karoline Bauer (1885)
"Mrs. Fanny, who even in the tea-parlour did not wish to deprive us of her company,
was dismissed with dignity by my mother saying that we did not require ..."
3. Memoirs of Karoline Bauer: From the German by Karoline Bauer (1885)
"Mrs. Fanny, who even in the tea-parlour did not wish to deprive us of her company,
was dismissed with dignity by my mother saying that we did not require ..."
4. Posthumous Memoirs of Karoline Bauer: From the German by Karoline Bauer (1884)
"Mrs. Fanny, who even in the tea-parlour did not wish to deprive us of her company,
was dismissed with dignity by my mother saying that we did not require ..."
5. Heads of the People: Or, Portraits of the English by Joseph Kenny Meadows (1878)
"He fears they must give a gin-palace air to their tea-parlour ; decorate it
externally with prodigious slop-basins and sugar-tongs. They cannot go on, ..."
6. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1892)
"Hast not thou thyself perchance seen diademed Cleopatra, daughter of the Ptolemies,
pleading, almost with bended knee, in unheroic tea-parlour, ..."
7. The Fortnightly Review (1866)
"... and that the tea parlour had been made to look as pleasant as was possible
with an inn parlour. She was very nervous as she stood upon the platform ..."
8. Memoirs of Karoline Bauer: From the German by Karoline Bauer (1885)
"Mrs. Fanny, who even in the tea-parlour did not wish to deprive us of her company,
was dismissed with dignity by my mother saying that we did not require ..."
9. Memoirs of Karoline Bauer: From the German by Karoline Bauer (1885)
"Mrs. Fanny, who even in the tea-parlour did not wish to deprive us of her company,
was dismissed with dignity by my mother saying that we did not require ..."
10. Posthumous Memoirs of Karoline Bauer: From the German by Karoline Bauer (1884)
"Mrs. Fanny, who even in the tea-parlour did not wish to deprive us of her company,
was dismissed with dignity by my mother saying that we did not require ..."
11. Heads of the People: Or, Portraits of the English by Joseph Kenny Meadows (1878)
"He fears they must give a gin-palace air to their tea-parlour ; decorate it
externally with prodigious slop-basins and sugar-tongs. They cannot go on, ..."
12. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1892)
"Hast not thou thyself perchance seen diademed Cleopatra, daughter of the Ptolemies,
pleading, almost with bended knee, in unheroic tea-parlour, ..."
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