Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Congou"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Congou \Con"gou\, Congo \Con"go\, n. [Chin. kung-foo labor.]
Black tea, of higher grade (finer leaf and less dusty) than
the present bohea. See {Tea}.
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.'' --S. W.
Williams.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
congou
n : black tea grown in China [syn: {congo}, {congou tea}, {English
breakfast tea}]
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