tea-cup

See also: teacup and tea cup

English

Noun

tea-cup (plural tea-cups)

1. Alternative form of teacup
   • 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XVI, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 344:

     Mrs. Meadows secunda, looked round with sovereign contempt on the bits of tea-cups, old china bowls, and other articles treasured up by Mrs. Meadows prima, and lost a sentence or two of what Mr. Meadows was saying in the survey.