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Morning break
Answer for the clue "Morning break ", 9 letters:
elevenses
Alternative clues for the word elevenses
- Mid-morning refreshment, informally
- Mid-morning break
- Refreshment in reflective bishop's office including seven new loaves for starters
- Reg leaving new version of Greensleeves for a cup of tea mid-morning?
- Snack? Still tucking into other source of sustenance
- Teams meeting opponents for refreshments
- Mid-morning snack
- Mid-morning refreshment
Word definitions for elevenses in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Elevenses is a short break taken at around 11a.m. to consume a drink or snack of some sort. The name and details vary between countries.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Sykes was dangling a small bough over its nose, possibly an olive branch, perhaps its elevenses . ▪ The horseman threw a couple of sacks over the backs of his horses and sat under the hedge to eat his elevenses .
Usage examples of elevenses.
They had known he was coming ever since the flag-lieutenant had brought a Baltic pilot aboard, together with orders for Captain Draper - the news, coming by way of the Captain's steward, had spread through the sloop in rather less than two minutes - and although many of the Ariels were landsmen or boys there were quite enough man-of-war's men aboard to tell them of Lucky Jack Aubrey's reputation as a fighting captain, while the three or four who had sailed with him magnified it extremely: he ate fire for breakfast, elevenses, dinner and supper.
As the time for elevenses rolled around he beached the dinghy on one of these and brewed up coffee under a taxodium all hung with moss.