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- noun Plural form of
oolong .
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Examples
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I've been cooking with a lot of teas—steaming with smoked teas and oolongs.
Food + Maria Cornejo 2011
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The tea menu is a tiny piece of delight, with descriptions that blithely use words like "velutinous" and "viridescent" and "vegetal" to describe their oolongs and whites and blacks.
surrounded by books Megan Kurashige 2008
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From the ceilings hung decorative umbrellas and lanterns, and each corner of the airy space promised exotic flavors: samples of inventive flavored teas like after-dinner-mint with chocolate chips somehow incorporated into the blend, caramel, or blueberry white at one table; iced greens and oolongs, sake and plum wine at another; the dim sum table, where we sampled crunchy-chewy sesame balls filled with a sweet lotus root paste.
Archive 2008-02-01 tannaz 2008
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For example, the China leaf from China and Formosa produces the best oolongs.
Archive 2006-03-01 2006
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From the ceilings hung decorative umbrellas and lanterns, and each corner of the airy space promised exotic flavors: samples of inventive flavored teas like after-dinner-mint with chocolate chips somehow incorporated into the blend, caramel, or blueberry white at one table; iced greens and oolongs, sake and plum wine at another; the dim sum table, where we sampled crunchy-chewy sesame balls filled with a sweet lotus root paste.
Tea Fest tannaz 2008
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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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For example, the China leaf from China and Formosa produces the best oolongs.
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The tea menu is a tiny piece of delight, with descriptions that blithely use words like "velutinous" and "viridescent" and "vegetal" to describe their oolongs and whites and blacks.
Archive 2008-10-01 Megan Kurashige 2008
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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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With a tea ball, mug and an illegal heating coil to boil the water in my dorm room I felt quite the sophisticate and discovered the delights of Russian caravan, fine oolongs and herbal blends.
Tea and Me FJK 2007
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