brick-tea

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

brick-tea (uncountable)

1. Tea leaves formed into the shape of a brick, used to make beverages like tea, eaten as food or, as in the past, used as a form of currency.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘On the City Wall’, In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 438:

     "Some of them were men from Ladakh," said Lalun, when the last had gone. "They brought me brick-tea such as the Russians sell, and a tea-urn from Peshawar."

Translations

tea leaves

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 磚茶 / 砖茶 (zh) (zhuānchá)

• Finnish: tiilitee (fi)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: пли́точный чай m (plítočnyj čaj)
• Tibetan: ཇ་སྦ་ཀག (ja sba kag)

See also

• tea brick