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Houʹqua

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A superior quality of tea, so called from Hoque, the celebrated Hong-Kong tea merchant; died 1846.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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