teapoy

• The teapoy - originally tipai , 'three legs' from Hindi and Persian - is among the most common of murdered antiques. —  dummy 3
• Unable to account their appearance there, and believing treachery to be at work among themselves, and that the gates had been opened to admit the foe, threw down their arms and surrendered at discretion Search was immediately made for the Begum, and while looking for this mutiness Princess in one of her apartments, Carlton took up from a teapoy or dressing table, a small but curiously carved steel casket. —  Vellenaux A Novel
• Motioning the woman to place it on the teapoy, near her pillow, she was about to give her further instructions, when she noticed that she was a stranger, not from her features, for they were concealed beneath the folds of her sarree, which had been thrown completely over her head, revealing only a small portion of the lower part of her face, but from her general appearance. —  Vellenaux A Novel
• She herself, nevertheless, felt too listless to join the banquet, so simply reclining on a sofa of the inner room, she looked at the plays in company with Mrs. Hsüeh; and choosing several kinds of such eatables as were to her taste, she placed them on a small teapoy, and now helped herself to some, and now talked, as the fancy took her. —  Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books
• On the couch stood a small teapoy, light and handy, of foreign lacquer, inlaid with gold. —  Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books

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