cream tea

noun

1. a typically British afternoon meal of tea served with scones, jams, and clotted cream.
2. high tea.

cream tea

noun

1. afternoon tea including bread or scones served with clotted cream and jam

Example Sentences

However, Mrs Malyon, who runs a cream tea company, admits her and husband Roger, 68, are "old enough to know better".

From BBC

Fractious disputes about scones rage on: Do you say “skon” or “skohn”? Is it acceptable to serve fruit scones at a cream tea, or only plain ones?

From New York Times

Another concerns whether it is acceptable to serve fruit scones at a cream tea, or only plain ones.

From New York Times

“What sort of fool decides to end a fractious month at the National Trust by posting a picture of a cream tea?”

From New York Times

At the concert the night before, Elizabeth stole the show with a prerecorded sequence in which she shared a mishap-prone cream tea with Paddington Bear, voiced by the actor Ben Whishaw.

From New York Times