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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Te(e, n. Also: tea, tey, tie. [17th c. Eng. tay, tee (both 1658), tea (1663), tey (1667-8).] Tea. Also attrib. with cup, disch, pot, etc.‘In the years 1681 and 1682, while the Duke of York … resided in Edinburgh … Tea, for the first time heard of in Scotland was given as a treat by the Princesses to the Scottish ladies.' W. Tytler in Arch. Scot. I 499. 1696 Argyle P. 38.
To 6 ounce and a half tea £10 16 s. 1696 Thanes of Cawdor 388.
Ane pound of true te 1699 Foulis Acc. Bk. 262.
For tee and sugerattrib. 1687 Montgomery Mem. 339.
Two tie dishes 1695 Edinb. Test. LXXX 134.
Ane tee table vij cups vij sacers ane tee pot ane bell ane suggar dish with ane copper teepott all belonging to the table worth xxiiij lib. 1696 Household Bk. Gr. Baillie lviii.
A whet ern tee stop 1703 Craven Caithness Diocese 156.
Six coffee dishes and cupps conforme, all of leam, with ane teypott 1717 Household Bk. Gr. Baillie 52.
Glas tee cups … a tee pot