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Definition: High Tea |
High TeaNoun1. (British) substantial early evening meal including tea. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Literature | High Tea The meal called tea served with cold meats, vegetables, and pastry, in substitution of dinner. "A well-understood `high tea' should have cold roast beef at the top of the table, a cold Yorkshire pie at the bottom, a mighty ham in the middle. The side dishes will comprise soused mackerel, pickled salmon (in due season), sausages and potatoes, etc., etc. Rivers of tea, coffee, and ale, with dry and buttered toast, sally-lunns, scones, mufflins, and crumpets, jams and marmalade." - The Daily Telegraph, May 9th, 1893. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The term high tea is sometimes used in North America to refer to a very formal, ritualized gathering (usually of ladies) in which tea and little cakes are served on the best china. This usage comes from understanding the term "high" to mean "formal". (Judith Martin replies that the correct interpretation is, "It's high time we had something to eat.")
In a family, it tends to be less formal and often it is essentially either a regularized snack, usually featuring sandwiches, cookies, pastry, fruit, and the like (in Spain, this is called a merienda), or else it is supper.North America
Great Britain and Ireland
Afternoon Tea
In Britain, the North American (in)formal gathering described above is called Afternoon Tea (or just tea) and generally would take place some time between 2:30 and 4:30 pm. High Tea
High Tea, is a term used mainly in the United Kingdom and Ireland to describe an early evening meal, typically around 7:00 pm. Although, it does not necessarily include tea, it has the following formal structure:
The cakes may either be full sized and cut into slices, or smaller individual cakes, or muffins, toast or other savoury breads.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "High tea."
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
high tea | 164 |
english high tea | 11 |
high tea party | 3 |
attire high tea | 3 |
high tea victoria | 3 |
high tea time | 3 |
etiquette high tea | 3 |
bc high tea victoria | 3 |
british high tea | 3 |
high tea victorian | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "high tea"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vakt i çajit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | شاي العصرية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | вечеря с чай. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pozdní svaèina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | teeillallinen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dînatoire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ארוחת מ ח", ארוחת ערב (dinner, supper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hidegvacsora (cold collation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jinnair beg. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ighhay eatay плотный ужин с чаем. (various references) popodnevni čaj. (various references) kvällsmåltid med te. (various references) ikindi kahvaltısı (afternoon tea, tiffin), çaylı hafif yemek. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-h-i-t" | |
-1 letter: eighth, height. | |
-2 letters: eight, heath, heigh, hight, thigh. | |
-3 letters: eath, gait, gate, geta, ghat, haet, hate, hath, heat, heth, high, thae. | |
-4 letters: age, ait, ate, eat, eta, eth, gae, gat, get, ghi, gie, git, hae, hag, hah, hat, heh, het, hie, hit, tae, tag, tea, teg, the, tie. | |
-5 letters: ae, ag, ah, ai, at, eh. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-h-i-t" | |
+2 letters: haughtier, headlight, sheathing. | |
+3 letters: earthlight, hatcheling, haughtiest, headlights, hightailed, nightshade, sheathings. | |
+4 letters: earthlights, ensheathing, hatchelling, haughtiness, headhunting, heavyweight, hyphenating, insheathing, lightheaded, nightshades, searchlight, unsheathing. | |
+5 letters: earthshaking, ethnographic, featherlight, heathenizing, heavyweights, lighthearted, lithographed, lithographer, searchlights, whitewashing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 69 67 68 54 65 61 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101001 01100111 01101000 00100000 01010100 01100101 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H i g h   T e a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0069 0067 0068 0054 0065 0061 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)427573742547167 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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