Pu-erh

Pu-erh

1. (historical) Alternative form of Pu'er in Yunnan, China.
   • 1885 May 14, “NOTES”, in Nature‎, page 37:

     In reporting to the Empress of China the occurrence of a violent earthquake at the town of Pu-erh on November 14 last year, the Viceroy of Yunnan observes with humility that this awful visitation is to be regarded as a penalty of Heaven for his own inefficiency and incompetency and that of his staff.

   • [2009, Mark Ukra, Sharyn Kolberg, The Ultimate Tea Diet: Burn Fat and Lose Pounds Fast and Forever‎, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 20:

     The rarest and most expensive type of tea in the world is the mysterious Pu-Erh (poo-AIR) tea from the Pu-Erh region of China.]

Pu-erh (uncountable)

1. (archaic) Alternative letter-case form of pu-erh, a kind of tea from Pu'er.

• “Pu-erh, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• upher