daymeal

alternative day-meal · alternative day meal

1. no pluralA meal during the day (as opposed to night), usually at or about midday.

   "During the day meals, we eat together as families. But the evening meal is when any business will be discussed so Rangers eat at the center tables and their families to the side."

   2014, L. S. King, Sword's Edge

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   The glare softened, "Today the daymeal is to be broth and tatties and cheese. And I am thinking now that ye all know these solid, good things better than Raymie could pick out a raider in an empty room, drunk or sober."

   2006, Patrick Cave, Sharp North

   Fare they then on their way: come at day-meal time to the farmstead of Thorfinn. He dwelt beside Eidwood. Egil and his craved day-meal, and to bait their horses: goodman Thorfinn took it as if that were their due.

   2016, E. R. Eddison, Egil's Saga

   Synonyms: lunch