Earl Grey

Meaning

Noun

• A blend of black tea flavoured with oil from the rind of the bergamot orange.
• A serving of this kind of tea.

Origin

• Reputed by to be . A “Grey's Tea” is known from the 1850s, but the first known published references to an “Earl Grey” tea are advertisements by Charlton & Co. of Jermyn Street in London in the 1880s.