"tea-pot" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 253:",
          "text": "They left early, yet the evening had seemed interminable; and considering that Emily was niched between an inlaid table, on which stood a shepherd in a yellow jacket offering a China—Chinese I mean—rose to a shepherdess in green and pink—and a tea-pot, all exquisite Dresden specimens—and an old lady, of whose shawl and shoulders Emily had the full benefit, […]",
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          "ref": "1832 September, John Wilson, W[illia]m Maginn, J[ohn] G[ibson] Lockhart, James Hogg [et al.], Noctes Ambrosianæ […], volume V, number LXII, New York, N.Y.: Redfield […], published 1854, →OCLC, page 76:",
          "text": "[O]ur friend was a hearty toper in the days of his Whiggery, but no sooner turned one of the tautest of Tories, than he took to the tea-pot. It seems a thing against nature.",
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          "ref": "1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter IV, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 52:",
          "text": "[…] a glance at the well-ordered tea-table, the shining cream-jug, the hissing urn, the tea-pot, already in operation, and the gentle and lovely aspect of two ladies, had their influence—he sat down.",
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          "ref": "1855, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], “An Old Friend”, in The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume II, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC, page 128:",
          "text": "The proprietor of the house cowered over a bed-candle and a furtive tea-pot in the back drawing-room.",
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          "ref": "1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:",
          "text": "As he became more popular, household objects were brought into requisition for his instruction in a copious vocabulary; and whenever he appeared in the Yard ladies would fly out at their doors crying ‘Mr Baptist—tea-pot!’ ‘Mr Baptist—dust-pan!’ ‘Mr Baptist—flour-dredger!’ ‘Mr Baptist—coffee-biggin!’ At the same time exhibiting those articles, and penetrating him with a sense of the appalling difficulties of the Anglo-Saxon tongue.",
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          "ref": "1862, William Cobbett, Advice to Young Men, and (incidentally) to Young Women:",
          "text": "Here are the slanderings, too, going on at home; for, while the husbands are assembled, it would be hard if the wives were not to do the same; and the very least that is to be expected is, that the tea-pot should keep pace with the porter-pot […]",
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          "ref": "1864, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, ““Jenny, Put the Kettle On.””, in Wylder’s Hand. […], New York, N.Y.: Carleton, […], published 1865, →OCLC, pages 88–89:",
          "text": "And the young lady, with a laugh, sat down, looking so pleased, and good-natured, and merry, that even old Tamar was fain to smile a glimmering smile; and little Margery actively brought the tea-caddy; and the kettle being in a skittish, singing state, quickly went off in a boil, and Tamar actually made tea in her brown tea-pot.",
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          "text": "[O]ur friend was a hearty toper in the days of his Whiggery, but no sooner turned one of the tautest of Tories, than he took to the tea-pot. It seems a thing against nature.",
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          "text": "The proprietor of the house cowered over a bed-candle and a furtive tea-pot in the back drawing-room.",
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