Meaning of nuncheon | Babel Free

Definitions

A drink or light snack taken in the afternoon; a refreshment between meals.

archaic, countable, dialectal, uncountable

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Examples

“They used to break⟳ their fast, and nonchion [translating collation] between meals, and all summer-time had men that sold snowe up and down the streets, wherewith they refreshed their wines, of whom some were so daintie that all winter long they used to put⟳ snow⟳ into their wine, not deeming it cold enough. (I.49)”

“"Yes---I left London this morning at eight o'clock, and the only ten minutes I have⟳ spent out of my chaise since that time, procured me a noonchine at Marlborough."”

“She gave him a hunk of nuncheon and a bundle of her novelettes, and he stole up to an empty garret and squatted on the bare boards.”

“Lurgashall, on the road to Northchapel, is a pleasant village, with a green, and a church unique among Sussex churches by virtue of a curious wooden gallery or cloister, said to have⟳ been built as a shelter⟳ for parishioners from a distance, who would eat⟳ their nuncheon there.”

““Your Grace, Madame Lanier wishes you to have⟳ nuncheon with her.””

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