meat tea

English

Noun

meat tea (countable and uncountable, plural meat teas)

1. (British, dated) High tea, at which meat was often served.
   • 1892, George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith, chapter 3, in The Diary of a Nobody:

     April 23.—Mr. and Mrs. James (Miss Fullers that was) came to meat-tea, and we left directly after for the Tank Theatre.

2. A kind of broth made with meat, such as beef tea.