teapoy

• “A teapoy is usually a hammock slung on a pole carried on the shoulders of natives.”

  An African Adventure

• “She set it on a glass-topped teapoy in front of the chair.”

  Call to Treason

• “On the teapoy on the right, were vases from the Ju”

  Hung Lou Meng

• “Feeling his hand tired, he dropped the book he held, leant his head on a teapoy, and fell asleep.”

  Hung Lou Meng

• “On the teapoy on the left, were spread out Wen Wang tripods, spoons, chopsticks and scent-bottles.”

  Hung Lou Meng

• “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

• “The rest of the inmates had, all alike, a chair and a teapoy.”

  Hung Lou Meng

• “No table stood below the couch, but only a high teapoy.”

  Hung Lou Meng

• “On the teapoy were arrayed cups, bowls, foreign cloth napkins and such things.”

  Hung Lou Meng

• “Neither should any banquet be spread, but a high teapoy can be placed in front of each, with one or two things to suit our particular tastes.”

  Hung Lou Meng

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