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teahouse
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Word definitions for teahouse in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Afternoons ended at the Gundy, the school teahouse , a short walk up the hill. ▪ And needless to say, in the tiny teahouse I was myself the proverbial bull in the china shop.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. a public restaurant that sells tea and light refreshments n. a public restaurant that sells tea and light refreshments
Usage examples of teahouse.
The small settlement, to whose teahouses the monks went for their dissipations, was a landing-place for vessels plying back and forth across the lake, and the bawdyhouses buzzed with excitement when Kiyomori and his troopers arrived to surround it in a house-to-house search.
Eguchi, a short distance above the river mouth, was a village of inns, teahouses, and brothels.
The hard sandstone caprock had been cleaned of sediment and leveled near one edge, with a tastefully unobtrusive light aircraft hangar, a fiberglass control tower, changing rooms, and a modest teahouse.
At that second the blazing roof collapsed sending them reeling away to fall in a heap, the resulting gusher of sparks and embers turned into a flamethrower by the wind, blowtorching other houses, fences, and the next Teahouse.
Back in those days the okiya and teahouses in Gion were all linked by a private telephone system, and Yoko was kept busier than almost anyone in our okiya, answering that telephone to book Hatsu-momo's engagements, sometimes for banquets or parties six months to a year in advance.
Inside, there's a placid pond toward one end--the 777 is now so low that Randy can count the lily pads--a tiny Shinto temple hewn from black stone, and a little bamboo teahouse.
In the old days, a hundred years or more ago, every time a geisha arrived at a party to entertain, the mistress of the teahouse lit a stick of one-hour incense-called one ohana, or "flower.