meat tea

American  

noun

British.

1. high tea.

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Etymology

Origin of meat tea

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

A fitness fanatic, he avoided meat, tea, coffee and chocolate.

From BBC

The UN rations are dry and many people would wish to sell them in order to buy other things including vegetables, meat, tea or sugar.

From The Guardian

And I wanted to read more of this sort of fiction, in which complex sensual pleasure came from the writing itself, in which even a description of a bunch of flowers becomes dirty: “The colours spoke to her of custard, of blancmange – a leaden meat tea served on pastel plates, the desiccation of a proletarian wake for some tyrant grandad, or some pub parrot of a granny, mad for these thirty years.”

From The Guardian

Meat′-bis′cuit, a preparation of meat, made with meal into a biscuit; Meat′iness, quality of being meaty; Meat′-off′ering, a Jewish sacrificial offering of fine flour or first-fruits with oil and frankincense; Meat′-pie, a pie mainly made up of meat; Meat′-safe, a receptacle for storing meat, walled with perforated zinc or gauze; Meat′-sales′man, one who sells meat, esp. to the retail butchers; Meat′-tea, a high tea, at which meat is served; Meat′-tub, a pickling-tub.—adj.

From Project Gutenberg

The old folk were to be provided with a meat tea; the Mudges were to be given a week at the seaside; the donor was to remain anonymous.

From Project Gutenberg