brick-tea
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English
Noun
- Tea leaves formed into the shape of a brick, used to make beverages like tea, eaten as food or, as in the past, used as a form of currency.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘On the City Wall’, In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 438:
- "Some of them were men from Ladakh," said Lalun, when the last had gone. "They brought me brick-tea such as the Russians sell, and a tea-urn from Peshawar."
Translations
tea leaves