Tiffin
[tifin]
Definition
(n.) A lunch, or slight repast between breakfast and dinner; -- originally, a Provincial English word, but introduced into India, and brought back to England in a special sense.
Editor: Ned
Definition
n. the East Indian name for luncheon.—v.i. Tiff to take lunch—Tiff′in is less correct.
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Examples
- The Colonel plays a good knife and fork at tiffin and resumes those weapons with great success at dinner. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Let's have it for tiffin; very cool and nice this hot weather. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In this romantic position Osborne and Amelia found the interesting pair, when they entered to announce that tiffin was ready. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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