Tisanes

With just 32 varieties on the list, including quite a few flavored teas and herbal tisanes, that is quite enough choice for us. ❋ Japan Times (2010)

In cases where they contain no tea leaves, some people prefer to call these beverages "tisanes" or "herbal teas" to avoid confusion. ❋ Unknown (1995)

An orderly went to find the médecin-chef, and we waded after him through the mud to one after another of the cottages in which, with admirable ingenuity, he had managed to create out of next to nothing the indispensable requirements of a second-line ambulance: sterilizing and disinfecting appliances, a bandage-room, a pharmacy, a well-filled wood-shed, and a clean kitchen in which "tisanes" were brewing over a cheerful fire. ❋ Unknown (1915)

a well-filled wood-shed, and a clean kitchen in which "tisanes" were brewing over a cheerful fire. ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)

I'd have totally gotten into BPAL if it had offered me an array of tisanes themed around fictional musicians, for example. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I was rather skeptical, but pleasantly surprised — it did indeed taste like strawberry kiwi, which a lot of tisanes with a similar name do not manage to do. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We have been ingesting large quantities of pills, tablets, syrups, tisanes and chicken soup, keeping warm, drinking plenty of liquid, and getting bloody fed up with coughing, sneezing, sore throats, fevers and ridiculous weakness. ❋ John (2008)

I have all sorts of lovely tisanes bought by myself or sent by friends, but for this I have fallen back on lemon chamomile, which I have been drinking since I was 15 or so and which has never -- well, actually it has failed me fairly often. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Ceramic pots will and should pick up flavors of the tea you brew, so you might prefer using a glass or porcelain pot if you're going to be brewing a variety of different teas and tisanes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I gave her tisanes brewed from marsh nettle and sweet violet to soothe the gnawing in her belly, and to soothe my own need to be useful. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

My mother brews up tisanes and leans from the window and pours them into the river, whispering words that no one can hear, throws powder on the fires to make them burn green and smoke. ❋ Philippa Gregory (2009)

Back home in my little organic village in Israel, we hardly ever drank proper “tea” from tea leaves – but only tisanes brewed from fresh herbs from the gardens or wild ones from the hills and meadows surrounding our homes. ❋ Ayala Sender (2009)

Herbal teas are not officially teas at all, and should really be called "herbal infusions" or "tisanes." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Cheap and poor quality tilleul produced in China and Europe continues to threaten French cultivation and harvest, and has resulted in substandard lime blossom tisanes in the marketplace. ❋ Michelle Krell Kydd (2009)