nonemeat

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A form of noonmeat — A midday meal (especially including meat).

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Meanings

nounnonemeat (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of noonmeat (“midday meal”).

    Nonemeat not mentioned now, but drinking in its stead, for which half an hour is allowed

    1850, Robert Southey, Southey's Common-Place Book, volume 3, page 17
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    [H]e growled, “were this France, or even Guienne, we should have a fresh haunch for our nonemeat."

    1894, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company, page 79

    COME, Wat; be yare* with thy dues, man, and do na keep me waiting, or I shall be late to nonemeat.† *Ready. †An afternoon meal.

    1896, May, John Bennett, “His Father's Price”, in St. Nicholas, volume 23, number 7

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

meantone
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APA

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Chicago

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