Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A type of Chinese green tea with twisted leaves.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A brand of green tea produced in China.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A fragrant kind of green tea.
- noun the light and inferior leaves separated from the hyson by a winnowing machine.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
Chinese greentea .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a Chinese green tea with twisted leaves
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This consists of the young leaf buds just as they begin to unfold, and forms a fine and delicate kind of young hyson, which is held in high estimation by the natives, and is generally sent about in small quantities as presents to their friends.
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The guests -- Alexander Hamilton, Quaker merchant Henry Drinker, and "several Ladies" -- sipped cups of hyson tea, sweetened with equal amounts of cane and maple sugar.
Kenneth C. Davis: A Sweet Assault on Slavery Kenneth C. Davis 2011
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The guests -- Alexander Hamilton, Quaker merchant Henry Drinker, and "several Ladies" -- sipped cups of hyson tea, sweetened with equal amounts of cane and maple sugar.
Kenneth C. Davis: A Sweet Assault on Slavery Kenneth C. Davis 2011
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The guests -- Alexander Hamilton, Quaker merchant Henry Drinker, and "several Ladies" -- sipped cups of hyson tea, sweetened with equal amounts of cane and maple sugar.
Kenneth C. Davis: A Sweet Assault on Slavery Kenneth C. Davis 2011
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The guests -- Alexander Hamilton, Quaker merchant Henry Drinker, and "several Ladies" -- sipped cups of hyson tea, sweetened with equal amounts of cane and maple sugar.
Kenneth C. Davis: A Sweet Assault on Slavery Kenneth C. Davis 2011
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The guests -- Alexander Hamilton, Quaker merchant Henry Drinker, and "several Ladies" -- sipped cups of hyson tea, sweetened with equal amounts of cane and maple sugar.
Kenneth C. Davis: A Sweet Assault on Slavery Kenneth C. Davis 2011
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The guests -- Alexander Hamilton, Quaker merchant Henry Drinker, and "several Ladies" -- sipped cups of hyson tea, sweetened with equal amounts of cane and maple sugar.
Kenneth C. Davis: A Sweet Assault on Slavery Kenneth C. Davis 2011
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Old ladies of family over their hyson, and grey-haired lairds over their punch, I had often heard utter a little harmless treason; while the former remembered having led down a dance with the Chevalier, and the latter recounted the feats they had performed at Preston, Clifton, and Falkirk.
Redgauntlet 2008
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“Really, madam, you must be aware that every volume of a narrative turns less and less interesting as the author draws to a conclusion, — just like your tea, which, though excellent hyson, is necessarily weaker and more insipid in the last cup.”
Rob Roy 2005
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For Rogers, four gallons of brandy and forty-five hundred-weight of best hyson tea at a pound a pound retail.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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