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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
in french, tea is called tea (thé) and any hot drink brewed from non-tea plants (herbal tea, etc.) is called "une infusion" or "une tisane" and they are very clearly not the same thing ; if someone offers you tea and you say "no thanks, it will keep me awake if i drink it now" they'll say "how about a tisane then ?"
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Ah, that's what a "tisane" is, is it? Hercule Poirot is always drinking them, and I've often wondered what it was
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