Meaning of bed tea | Babel Free

Definitions

A serving of tea shortly after awakening in the morning.

India, Pakistan, countable, uncountable

Examples

“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. . . .”

“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.”

“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.”

“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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