red tea

noun

1

: rooibos sense 2

Give yourself a non-alcoholic "happy hour" and unwind with South-African red tea or "rooibos" … a caffeine free low tannin tea-like beverage.

—Stephen Exel

2

: black tea

What Westerners call black tea is red tea for the Chinese. Although the color of the tea looks black, the leaves and soup after brewing look red.

—Ye Jun

Examples of red tea in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Since taking her advice and drinking the gorgeous red tea after meals, my abdominal inflammation has remarkably decreased. —Laura Solla, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2024

There are tea sets in gold, porcelain, silver; tea cups in the paintings on the wall; and perhaps my favorite of all, a plastic red tea set on an unassuming tray in the staff area. —Maria Geyman, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2024

Local chef Nicolás Tapia’s 10-course tasting menus use teas from different parts of the world, including oolong from Nantou, Taiwan, and red tea from Hadong, South Korea, as a guideline to pair with local produce and seafood from Chile’s cold Pacific waters. —Nicholas Gill, TIME, 25 July 2024

Historians have traced the tradition of red drink to West Africa where red teas were made from hibiscus. —Omar Tate, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 June 2024

Rooibos Tea Also known as red tea, rooibos tea is a caffeine-free beverage that is made from leaves of the Aspalathus linearis shrub. —Lauren Manaker Ms, Rdn, Ld, Verywell Health, 20 Mar. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1848, in the meaning defined at sense 2