| 单词 | high tea |
| 释义 | > as lemmashigh tea high tea n. British, Australian, and New Zealand a meal eaten in the late afternoon or early evening, typically consisting of a cooked dish, bread and butter, and tea.If a main meal in the evening, more commonly called tea (cf. tea n.1 4a), although in this case tea may not be served alongside the food. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > tea tea1738 high tea1787 tea and turn out1806 supper1818 tousy tea1835 meat tea1842 thé complet1856 low tea1883 thick tea1886 tea-supper1892 cream tea1964 1787 Blenheim Lodge II. xiii. 13 Just as we were at high tea, Doctor Shatford made his appearance. 1831 F. A. Kemble Rec. Girlhood 14 June (1878) III. 49 We did not return home till near nine, and so, instead of dinner, all sat down to high tea. 1856 E. G. K. Browne Hist. Tractarian Movement (ed. 2) 251 At one of the ‘High Teas’ of S. Barnabas. 1884 Girl's Own Paper May 427/2 For people who are not in the habit of giving dinner-parties..high tea is a capital institution. 1922 W. S. Maugham On Chinese Screen xlix. 193 He thought of the high tea to which he sat down when he came home from school.., a slice of cold meat, a great deal of bread and butter and plenty of milk in his tea. 1957 London Mag. Nov. 53 We ate high-tea made of fresh salmon, or mushrooms we'd risen at dawn to gather. 2009 J. Struthers Red Sky at Night 171 High tea..was an amalgam of afternoon tea and an evening meal. high tea high tea, meat tea: see high adj. and n.2 Compounds 4, meat n. Compounds 2 tea and turn-out: see turn-out n. 7b.extracted from tean.1< as lemmas |
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