"tea cosy" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: tea cosies [plural], tea cozies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|+|tea cozies}} tea cosy (plural tea cosies or tea cozies)
  1. (British) An insulating cloth covering, shaped to fit over a teapot to maintain warmth. Wikipedia link: tea cosy Tags: British Categories (topical): Tea Synonyms: teacosy, tea cosey, tea-cosy, tea cozy [North-America] Related terms: egg-cosy, teapot, teabag, tea leaf, teaspoon Translations (cloth covering a teapot): 茶壺保溫套 (Chinese Mandarin), 茶壶保温套 (cháhú bǎowēntào) (Chinese Mandarin), theemuts [feminine] (Dutch), tekruomufo (Esperanto), pannumyssy (Finnish), couvre-théière [masculine] (French), Teewärmer [masculine] (German), chapé du pot à thée [masculine] (Norman), ча́йная ба́ба (čájnaja bába) [feminine] (Russian), cubretetera [feminine] (Spanish), tehuva [common-gender] (Swedish), tehuv [common-gender] (Swedish), tehätta [common-gender] (Swedish), ཇ་ཁེབས (ja khebs) (Tibetan)

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      "lang": "Russian",
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      "sense": "cloth covering a teapot",
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        "feminine"
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    },
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      "code": "bo",
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      "sense": "cloth covering a teapot",
      "word": "ཇ་ཁེབས"
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