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beef tea

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beef tea
n
(Cookery) a drink made by boiling pieces of lean beef: often given to invalids to stimulate the appetite
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Noun1.beef tea - an extract of beef (given to people who are ill)
Bovril
extract, infusion - a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)
Translations
beef tea n → brodo di manzo, consommé m inv
beef tea n → brodo di manzo, consommé m inv


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Dunster drank his beef tea and felt considerably stronger.
The Vanished Messenger by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
On Saturday, you are able to swallow a little beef tea, and to sit up on deck, and answer with a wan, sweet smile when kind-hearted people ask you how you feel now.
Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing Of The Dog) by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
Her paroxysms of exhilaration, followed by a gnawing sense of failure and uselessness, were known to her mother only as "wildness" and "low spirits," to be combated by needlework as a sedative, or beef tea as a stimulant.
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