lunch hour

noun

Also called: lunch break a break in the middle of the working day, usually of one hour, during which lunch may be eaten

Also called: lunch time the time at which lunch is usually eaten

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Today is session three of the five-week lunch-hour course, “Meditation in Everyday Life,” at the New York Shambhala Center.
Meditation Teacher Lodro Rinzler Rebrands Buddhism to Deal with Drinking and Sex|Allison Yarrow|February 11, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Whenever possible during the lunch-hour rush, Jane stopped to smile and talk to the child.
Foundling on Venus|John de Courcy
Her exemptions and privileges, her patronizing remarks, formed an exhaustless subject of conversation at the lunch-hour.
A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays|Willa Cather
Even at lunch-hour Una could not come to much understanding with the girls of the commercial college.
The Job|Sinclair Lewis

The artillery, which had been booming in a desultory way all morning, had of course stopped during the lunch-hour.
Over the Front in an Aeroplane and Scenes Inside the French and Flemish Trenches|Ralph Pulitzer
Even the hospitality of the genial host seems to end—with the ending of the lunch-hour.
The Personality of American Cities|Edward Hungerford

lunch hour

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