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congou
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun congou has 1 sense
- congou(n = noun.food) congo, congou tea, english breakfast tea - black tea grown in China; Array is a kind of black tea
CIDE DICTIONARY
congou, n. [Chin. kung-foo labor.].
Black tea, of higher grade (finer leaf and less dusty) than the present bohea. Also called English breakfast tea . See Tea. [1913 Webster]
"Of black teas, the great mass is called Congou, or the “well worked”, a name which took the place of the Bohea of 150 years ago, and is now itself giving way to the term “English breakfast tea.”"
[1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
congou, n. a variety of black China tea.
Etymology
Chin. dial. kung hu te tea laboured for
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