Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
table - table; tableau - board; tableaux - paintings; table à oiseaux - bird's table; tacler - to tackle; tamponner - to dab; tandis - while; tangente - tangent; tanière - lair; tant attendu - so anticipated; tantôt - sometimes / soon; tapi - lurking; tapis - carpet; taraud - tap; tare - defect; taré - mad / imbecile; tarir - to dry up ...
a coffee shop (also used in French for "coffee"). Café au lait café au lait coffee with milk; or a light-brown color. In medicine, it is also used to describe a birthmark that is of a light-brown color (café au lait spot). calque a copied term/thing. In linguistics, a loan translation. canard (canard means "duck" in French) an unfounded ...
Modern infusers originated in 1817 when an English patent was granted for a "tea or coffee biggin", a metal basket at the bottom of the teapot. Many more tea leaf holder designs followed, [28] with tea balls and tea-making spoons arriving in the first half of the 19th century. [29] The first automated electric teapot was invented in 1909. [30]
A tasse filled with coffee. A tasse à café (French pronunciation: [tɑs‿a kafe], coffee cup) is a cup, generally of white porcelain and of around 120 ml (4 fl oz), in which coffee is served. [1] [2] It is also sometimes used to serve small portions of rich drinks, such as hot chocolate.
Drinkware, beverageware (in other words, cups, jugs and ewers) is a general term for a vessel intended to contain beverages or liquid foods for drinking or consumption. [2] Beaker; Beer glassware; Bottle; Coffee cup; Cup; Dwarf ale glass; Heavy baluster glass; Jar; Mazagran; Mug; Pythagorean cup; Quaich. [3] Sake cup (ochoko) Stemware; Tazza ...
These may be part of a tea set combined with a teapot, cream jug, covered sugar bowl, and slop bowl. Teacups are often wider and shorter than coffee cups. Cups for morning tea are conventionally larger than cups for afternoon tea. Higher quality teacups are typically made of fine white translucent porcelain and decorated with patterns. Some ...
A tea infuser is a device in which loose, dried tea leaves are placed for steeping or brewing, in a mug or a teapot full of hot water. It is often called a teaball, tea maker or tea egg. [1] The tea infuser gained popularity in the first half of the 19th century. Tea infusers enable one to easily steep tea from fannings and broken leaf teas. [2]
Later coffee tables were designed as low tables, and this idea may have come from the Ottoman Empire, based on the tables in use in tea gardens. As the Anglo-Japanese style was popular in Britain throughout the 1870s and 1880s, [ 5 ] and low tables were common in Japan , this seems to be an equally likely source for the concept of a long low table.