meat tea

Historical Examples of meat tea

• It will be like having a meat-tea, or reading an English novel.

  The Picture of Dorian Gray

  Oscar Wilde

• I ventured to ask him to come home to meat-tea, and take pot-luck.

  The Diary of a Nobody

  George Grossmith

• Old Jones dined all the days of his life at one o'clock, and had a "meat-tea" at six.

  The Champagne Standard

  Mrs. John Lane

• Before the family grew up, they used to dine early, at half-past one, and had a meat-tea at half-past six.

  Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884.

  Various

• With them, however, it is more usual to drink beer with their mid-day meal, and to have meat-tea in the evening.

  Town Life in Australia

  R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny