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high tea
noun
- a late afternoon or early evening meal similar to a light supper.
high tea
Word History and Origins
Origin of high tea1
Example Sentences
Liz talked of traveling the world, shopping for shoes and purses, mother-daughter spa trips for manis, pedis, and massages, and high tea at the ever-so-elegant Huntington Library.
It is Miss Manners’ understanding that in Scotland, high tea is somewhat closer to afternoon tea in England, but it is still not quite the same thing, because it includes hot food — meat pie, fish, game or such — and hearty baked goods.
Therefore, high tea includes meat and other hot foods and baked goods.
We are planning on attending a high tea at Edinburgh Castle.
The whole village participated in traditional tribal attire, coming together to pray and enjoy a high tea.
She planned for Sunday an automobile ride; she was to hire the car from the Axminister garage, and a high tea afterward.
Then the maid burst out of the kitchen with a tray and the principal utensils for high tea thereon.
Of all pernicious customs there is none more to be deprecated than that of high tea, as it is called.
Late that afternoon he had gratified Nanna by sharing her high tea, and so he was not expected in the dining-room.
He would sit, after high tea, of which cold fried fish was the prime ingredient, dozing over the Jewish weekly.
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