bed tea

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bed tea (countable and uncountable, plural bed teas)

  1. (India, Pakistan) A serving of tea shortly after awakening in the morning.
    • 1955, S. K. Kirpalani, Fifty Years with the British, published 1993, →ISBN, page 92:
      The day was pretty fully taken up by a well-defined routine: 6 a.m. chota-hazri (bed tea and some fruit); seven to eight, riding, bath, then breakfast at nine. . . .
    • 1991, Mark Tully, No Full Stops in India (1992 Penguin edition), →ISBN, (Google preview):
      Bed tea or chota hazari (small breakfast), as we used to know it when I was a child in Calcutta during the last days of the raj, is one of the luxuries of my life in India.
    • 1996 April 13, Justine Hardy, “Travel: That elusive, smart and affordable hotel is only just around the corner”, in The Independent", UK, retrieved 24 March 2014:
      His cap and white gloves were perfect whether he was delivering the bed tea at 8am or bringing me a china hot water bottle just before midnight.
    • 2013 June 6, "India's Top Romantic Resorts: Glenburn Tea, Estate Darjeeling, India Times (retrieved 24 March 2014):
      You'll be woken each morning with a tray of cookies and ‘bed-tea’, which is made using leaves plucked from the plantations outside your window.

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