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Drake explains that what goes into a tea bag is "fannings," or, the bits of tea leaves that are broken off or fired during the creation process.
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I agree with you that_Guy i like fannings more .. but now I am thinking I might have to buy a runaways cd .. theJOker
The Runaways Movie Trailer: Fast, Cheap and Hopefully Out of Control | /Film 2010
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The tea is passed over wire mesh of varying sizes so that the whole leaf, broken leaf, fannings and dust grades fall at different places.
Darjeeling Tea Processing - The process of Darjeeling Tea manufacture 2006
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The smaller or broken leaves are classified as broken orange pekoe, broken pekoe souchong, broken orange pekoe fannings, and fines (also called "dust").
Archive 2006-03-01 2006
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The smaller or broken leaves are classified as broken orange pekoe, broken pekoe souchong, broken orange pekoe fannings, and fines (also called "dust").
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The tea is passed over wire mesh of varying sizes so that the whole leaf, broken leaf, fannings and dust grades fall at different places.
Archive 2006-03-01 2006
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"Technically, except for fannings and fines, the terms should apply only to black, or fermented, tea," Dick says, "but nowadays I often see oolongs labeled" orange pekoe, "and even some green teas are labeled pekoe or flowery pekoe."
Archive 2006-03-01 2006
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"Technically, except for fannings and fines, the terms should apply only to black, or fermented, tea," Dick says, "but nowadays I often see oolongs labeled" orange pekoe, "and even some green teas are labeled pekoe or flowery pekoe."
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She was the best of them all, the one who set the rhythm for all the other women, and determined the appropriate number of fannings between the opening and closing of those instruments of femininity.
Waiting for Snow in Havana Carlos Eire 2003
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But now, beholding Yolande amid her flowers, herself as sweet and fresh as they, he made an end of his singing and betook him, straightway, to amorous looks and deep-fetched sighs together with many supple bendings of the back, elegant posturings and motitions of slim legs, fannings and flauntings of be-feathered cap, and the like gallantries; and thereafter fell to his wooing on this fashion:
The Geste of Duke Jocelyn Jeffery Farnol 1915
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