DCHP-3

shanty tea

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the potent, black, tea brewed by the shantymen, characterized by its souplike consistency.

Quotations

1854
Shanty tea is as unlike the delicate infusion over which ladies are said to imbibe such nice discrimination of character, as the oil of peppermint is to the essence.