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Mid-morning refreshment
Answer for the clue "Mid-morning refreshment ", 9 letters:
elevenses
Alternative clues for the word elevenses
- Tea and biscuits, besides a bit of scripture, fed by English clergyman
- Mid-morning refreshment, informally
- Morning break
- Mid-morning break
- Still tucking into other special snack
- Teams meeting opponents for refreshments
- Refreshment in reflective bishop's office including seven new loaves for starters
- Morning snack
Word definitions for elevenses in dictionaries
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 .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context British English) A snack that is similar to afternoon tea, but eaten in the late morning.
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.