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Hrsanei Posted 15 years ago
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Hi.

what do we call tea after being brewed? I am not talking about the liquid but the tea material that remains.

sth that we put in dust bin while cleaning the tea pot.

I have found dregs but dregs is the liquid, not the tea material.

to clarify I have to say that when we do not use tea sieve, --------appear in our glass of tea.

thanks
  

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'Dregs' is, on the contrary, particularly the tea material, the solid part or sediment -- though the term is often used for whatever is not used (= liquid + solid). However, I believe that they just as often remain tea leaves, as in this excerpt about tasseography: After a cup of tea has been poured, without using a tea strainer, the tea is drunk or poured away. The cup should then be shaken well and any remaining liquid drained off in the saucer.

— Mister Micawber

  • 'Dregs' is, on the contrary, particularly the tea material, the solid part or sediment -- though the term is often used for whatever is not used (= liquid + solid).
  • However, I believe that they just as often remain tea leaves, as in this excerpt about tasseography: After a cup of tea has been poured, without using a tea strainer, the tea is drunk or poured away.
  • The cup should then be shaken well and any remaining liquid drained off in the saucer.
  • The diviner now looks at the pattern of tea leaves in the cup and allows the imagination to play around the shapes suggested by them.
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'Dregs' is, on the contrary, particularly the tea material, the solid part or sediment -- though the term is often used for whatever is not used (= liquid + solid). However, I believe that they just as often remain tea leaves, as in this excerpt about tasseography:

After a cup of tea has been poured, without using a tea strainer, the tea is drunk or poured away. The cup should then
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Thanks Mister Micaber,

So we have to use tea strainer to avoid tea leaves in our cup.
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hrsaneiThanks Mister Micaber,So we have to use tea strainer to avoid tea leaves in our cup.

Yes, and that is not necessariy 100% successful, but it helps.
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