"tea caddy" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: tea caddies [plural]
Etymology: From tea + caddy. Etymology templates: {{com|en|tea|caddy#Etymology_2}} tea + caddy Head templates: {{en-noun}} tea caddy (plural tea caddies)
  1. A box, jar, pot, or tin used to store tea leaves. Categories (topical): Containers, Tea Synonyms: tea-caddy, teacaddy Translations (box, jar, pot, or tin used to store tea leaves): theebus [feminine] (Dutch), boîte à thé [feminine] (French), Teedose [feminine] (German), taebhosca [masculine] (Irish), lata de chá [feminine] (Portuguese), tun te (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-tea_caddy-en-noun-QwxIDnLM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English links with manual fragments

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