A thick or padded cover placed over a teapot to keep the tea hot.
茶壶保暖套
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Expect North Korea to start selling nuclear tea cosies within the decade.
Or why not add pockets to the sides of a tea cosy and fill with rosemary.
Like fish and chips and your gran's crocheted tea cosies, Victoria Wood is the very essence of Northern England in all its dark, satanic glory.
Even our prime minister felt it necessary to proclaim his secular outlook by donning what looked like an inverted tea cosy on his head at his annual iftar.
I think I must have looked a bit like a doll on a tea cosy!
Only his wife was allowed to wash it, and it had to be dried on a tea cosy over a biscuit tin to keep its shape.
To Josefina's delight, Beatrix was wearing a knitted tea cosy on her head, and when she laughed she rolled a little and slapped her knee with her small chubby hands.
She started to make crafts from the material and has produced some very unusual crafts, cushions, tea cosies, aprons, bags and much more.
The competition for September is the most interesting tea cosy.
Mum gave it to my aunt who thought it was a tea cosy!
Far from being risibly old-fashioned or nostalgic, the idea of knitting a tea cosy has enormous appeal for a whole generation of young women, as well as older ones.
The only concession to summer is that most people have removed their hats except my grandmother (fifth from right) who is wearing a cross between a meringue and a tea cosy.
Marjorie Bligh notably used plastic bags as woven tea cosies but didn't pretend there was anything other than ‘waste not - want not’ behind it.
On the entrance floor level, the Winter Garden has a self-service restaurant and dining area and a shop where the emphasis is on fine art publications rather than tasteful tea cosies.
After it was washed it was dried on a tea cosy that sits on a biscuit tin.
It's a nicely worded piece, but I've pushed the bit about Mrs Burgess's collection of crocheted tea cosies up to the top.
There must be something very strange in a man who, if left alone in a room with a tea cosy, doesn't try it on.
Cavity wall insulation acts like a tea cosy, preventing heat from escaping from a house and keeping rooms warmer for longer.
District-wide, Craven has a shortfall of 54,000 grammes of fluff that, potentially, could be recycled to make 30 news editor's tea cosies.
That's why we're the country that invented the tea cosy.