meat tea

noun

High tea, at which meat was often served.

Meanings

nounmeat tea (countable and uncountable, plural meat teas)

plural meat teas

  1. UKcountabledateduncountableHigh 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
  2. countableuncountableA kind of broth made with meat, such as beef tea.
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