Definition of "orange pekoe" []

• A grade of black tea consisting of the end buds of the shoot or their surrounding two full leaves. (noun)

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• "Other people had a teapot; we had a tea bowl—a large, round, dented aluminum bowl, stained to a dark walnut-brown on the inside from orange pekoe and sticky sugar."