meat tea en · NOUN
Meanings
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(UK, countable, dated, uncountable) High tea, at which meat was often served.
April 23.—Mr. and Mrs. James (Miss Fullers that was) came to meat-tea, and we left directly after for the Tank Theatre.
1892, George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith, chapter 3, in The Diary of a Nobody:
- (countable, uncountable) A kind of broth made with meat, such as beef tea.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| meat teas | Number=Plur | lexicographic |