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n. 1 (context UK English) A formal meal comprising light snacks, accompanied by tea. 2 (context Australia NZ Hong Kong English) A small meal or snack eaten between lunch and dinner; a period of time set aside for this purpose, taken as a break from work or from a conference.
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Afternoon Tea is a 1910 oil painting by American artist Richard E. Miller, located in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which is in Indianapolis, Indiana. Like many of Miller's paintings, it depicts women in a sunny scene, filled with flowers, depicted in his Impressionist style with a distinct flavor of Japonism.
Usage examples of "afternoon tea".
When the professors have all left the hall, we go over to Union House to have afternoon tea.
Monday was always busy with everybody stocking up after the weekend and by the time he arrived back home at Number 112 for his afternoon tea he was exhausted.
On a Saturday in the early days of the following year, 1892, Edwin by special request had gone in to take afternoon tea with the Orgreaves.
It was there we watched television and usually had afternoon tea and drinks in the evening.
During our afternoon tea yesterday, someone said something that was close enough to the truth, so that person was forced to act immediately.
Go to a mining village or a farm or a factory or a fucking afternoon tea party.