Meaning of cream tea | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Tea with cream, specifically (UK) clotted cream.
   countable, uncountable
2. An afternoon tea including cream tea and, usually, scones and jam.
   UK, countable, uncountable

Examples

“It is built around a wide centre street known as the Mall, one of the few semi-flat stretches in the area, & along the Mall one finds scores of English shops with pots of red geraniums at their doors, a proper hotel with good mahogany bedsteads & Peliti’s tearoom, where one drinks cream tea from fine china cups.”

“He scanned the next set⟳ of pictures and noticed that she was either on her own⟳ or with people who were considerably older than her. ‘Bingo,’ said Winters. ‘Ballroom dancing with another woman. Eating cream tea in the parochial club. Watching paint⟳ dry in the church hall. And there I was thinking ET was the only image system that could make⟳ me want⟳ to cry⟳.’”

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