tea shop

noun

chiefly British
: a small restaurant or café : tearoom

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These days, modern tea shops offer larger spaces with Western-style seating in chairs and a more relaxed environment. Yukari Sakamoto, AFAR Media, 12 June 2025 To Arlington, the little bubble tea shop is a big deal That’s the kind of attraction Arlington wants downtown, in a new shop across Front Street fron Cane Rosso near a new Breakfast Brothers. Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 May 2025 Phung said most ca phe sua da, or Vietnamese iced coffee, sold at bakeries and milk tea shops in the United States is made with Arabica beans grown in Brazil or other parts of South America. Sacbee.com, 14 July 2025 The tea shop had a new cold-water sink installed without the county health department’s approval, which had already been a violation during multiple prior inspections. Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 25 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tea shop

Word History

First Known Use

1851, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of tea shop was in 1851

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“Tea shop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tea%20shop. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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