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Pekoe

2 stages from Chinese to English.

Today it means a grade of black tea made from small young leaves
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Stage 1 of 2
pak-ho
Chinese · 1700s
"white down, fine hair"
literally white down, describing the fine hairs on young tea leaves
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Stage 2 of 2
pekoe
English · 1700s
"a grade of black tea made from young leaves"
adopted directly as a grading term in the tea trade
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