orange pekoe

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   a superior grade of black tea; grown in India and Sri Lanka and Java

   Synonymspekoe

   Broaderblack tea

Questions about orange pekoe

What does orange pekoe mean?

orange pekoe means "a superior grade of black tea; grown in India and Sri Lanka and Java".

What is another word for orange pekoe?

Close synonyms include pekoe. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is orange pekoe a common word?

orange pekoe is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.