pekoe

A grade of black tea consisting of the leaves around the buds.

Pekoe tea (unqualified) is that made from the three pekoe leaves together (see below). It is of a black or grayish black color dotted with grayish or yellowish pekoe ends, and yields a strong dark liquor of fine flavor, technically described as “piquant.”

A superior kind of black tea, so called because the leaves are picked young with the “down” still on them.

A kind of black tea.

A high-quality black tea made using young leaves, grown in Sri Lanka, India and Java.

a superior grade of black tea; grown in India and Sri Lanka and Java