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Mid-morning refreshment, informally
Answer for the clue "Mid-morning refreshment, informally ", 9 letters:
elevenses
Alternative clues for the word elevenses
- Morning snack
- Midmorning tea with HobNobs
- Mid-morning break
- Mid-morning refreshment
- Excitedly sees about bit of lunch, just...after this?
- Snack? Still tucking into other source of sustenance
- Mid-morning snack
- Tea and biscuits, besides a bit of scripture, fed by English clergyman
- Refreshment in reflective bishop's office including seven new loaves for starters
Word definitions for elevenses in dictionaries
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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.
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.