teaboard
English
Noun
teaboard (plural teaboards)
- (dated) A tea tray.
- 1827, Autobiography, A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published (volume 10, part 2, page 73)
- I remember, for instance, to have remarked in one of the rooms several small tables and teaboards, ornamented with some good copies of engravings, executed and varnished over at the manufactory of Ekaterinabourg.
- 1867, Henry Spicer, Bound to Please, volume 2, number 288, page 94:
- He had a large level countenance, like a teaboard: the original flatness of his nose not having (contrary to John's theory) preserved it from a further depression, the result of one of his many battles.
- 1827, Autobiography, A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published (volume 10, part 2, page 73)
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