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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cream tea
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▪ After this highlight we cycled on roads back to base and to a cream tea in Dorchester.
▪ An intermission was filled with several games of bingo and the day was rounded off with cream tea.
▪ Here we indulged in a cream tea, no calorie counting at all!
▪ Take cream tea on the lawn and the owner, Julian Peck, will serve you himself.
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cream tea

n. (context British English) a light afternoon meal consisting of scones, jam and clotted cream served with the drink tea

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Cream tea

A cream tea (also known as a Devonshire tea, Devon cream tea or Cornish cream tea) is a form of afternoon tea light meal, consisting of tea taken with a combination of scones, clotted cream, and jam. Traditionally a speciality of Devon and Cornwall, cream teas are offered for sale in tea rooms in those two counties, as well as in other parts of England, and elsewhere in the Commonwealth.

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Of all of the wonderful food that his spouse produced, Uncle Sebastian most adored the uniquely Devon cream tea-scones, clotted cream, and jam.

In Kingdom by the Sea, Paul Theroux gives the impression that you can walk it in an easy lope and still have time for a cream tea and to slag off the locals, but I trust he had better weather than I.