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English Dictionary: congou by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
congou
n
  1. black tea grown in China [syn: congou, congo, {congou tea}, English breakfast tea]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Congou \Con"gou\, Congo \Con"go\, n. [Chin. kung-foo labor.]
      Black tea, of higher grade (finer leaf and less dusty) than
      the present bohea. See {Tea}.
  
               Of black teas, the great mass is called Congou, or the
               [bd]well worked[b8], a name which took the place of the
               Bohea of 150 years ago, and is now itself giving way to
               the term [bd]English breakfast tea.[b8]   --S. W.
                                                                              Williams.
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