"tea-service" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: tea-services [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} tea-service (plural tea-services)
  1. Archaic form of tea service. Tags: alt-of, archaic Alternative form of: tea service
    Sense id: en-tea-service-en-noun-QHIp4AVP Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1876, Mrs. G[eorge] Linnæus Banks [i.e., Isabella Banks], “Wounded”, in The Manchester Man, volume II, London: Hurst and Blackett, […], page 79:",
          "text": "[…] James brought in the tea-board, with its genuine China tea-service, plates with cake and bread-and-butter, and, whilst he went back to Kezia for the tea-urn, in walked Mr. Ashton, and with him the Rev. Joshua Brookes.",
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          "text": "He seems to have been a man of great wealth, even for that day, as he brought with him 60,000 guineas, an immense amount of silver-plate for daily family use, including two complete tea-services, two large urns, one for coffee and the other for chocolate, tureens, mugs, tumblers, goblets, porringers, chafing-dish, ladles, forks and knives with solid silver handles; […]",
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