bed tea
bed tea
n
(in some Asian countries) tea served to a guest in bed in the morning
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And I know that they gave me bed tea very late and I woke up very late.
Then it's bed tea and servings for the dear husband.
Six luxury rooms available from PS160 per room per night including Bed Tea, full breakfast, and complimentary homemade afternoon tea on arrival.
Or just have a lie-in, as the Brits say, and let the butler bring you that long-cherished colonial tradition, "bed tea."
In an 1870s 'snapshot' of an Indian army officer's bedroom, the servant apparently brings his master 'bed tea' after a hard night's drinking.
Tea garden life begins at five in the morning, six by Garden Time or GT, a fast dying British institution to make the hour seem more respectable to a hard pressed manager sahib forced into wakefulness at 4.30 by the night chowkidar and bed tea. The sahib clumps down the stairs and out of the bungalow leaving the memsahib (and her guests) to be awakened more gently an hour later by the maid bearing the inevitable bed tea.
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