Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A tea-expert; one whose business it is to inspect and test teas by tasting. See taster.

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  • Richard Enticott is a British citizen who works as a tea-taster in New York.

    Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories 2010

  • Richard Enticott is a British citizen who works as a tea-taster in New York.

    Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories 2010

  • If you ever have to go to the office, give me a ring and I'll volunteer as tea-taster, just in case.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Nor do I see my way clear in providing for the steeple-climber, the equilibrist, the railroad president, or the tea-taster.

    Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson

  • Indian, when I submitted the remainder of this very cake to a well-known tea-taster in Mangoe Lane, Calcutta, and asked his expert opinion, he reported that the sample was "of undoubted value and of great interest, as showing what _muck can be called tea_."

    An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma George Ernest Morrison 1891

  • Here were huge piles of tea-chests, assorted and unassorted, and the high-salaried tea-taster with his row of tiny cups of hot-drawn tea, delicately sampling and classifying the varieties and grades for market.

    History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) Matilda Joslyn Gage 1862

  • It is in favour in the palace of the Emperor in Peking itself; it is one of the finest teas in China, yet, to show how jealous the rivalry now is between China tea and Indian, when I submitted the remainder of this very cake to a well-known tea-taster in Mangoe Lane Calcutta, and asked his expert opinion, he reported that the sample was "of undoubted value and of great interest, as showing what muck can be called tea."

    AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 1895

  • a rubber-stamp secretary in some insurance office, or as a tea-taster, or as a subway ticket-chopper.

    Torchy As A Pa Sewell Ford 1907

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