elevenses

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elevenses englanniksi

  1. A short mid-morning break taken around eleven o'clock for a drink or light snack.

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  3. (quote-journal)|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Published by William W. Snowdon|month=February|year=1837|volume=VI|page=162|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=tXNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA162|column=2|oclc=6444302|passage=The harvestmen who board in the farm-houses fare sumptuously during the month of harvest.— (..) at eleven o'clock in the morning, and four in the afternoon, they have each a large light plum-bun, with a pint of ale a piece, carried into the field, to encourage them to work cheerfully. These extra refreshments they call, in their provincial language, their "''elevenses''" and "''fourses''." I could not at first imagine what the servants meant by talking of carrying the harvestmen their elevenses and fourses, till Mrs. Henley explained that it was a vulgar abbreviation of the four-o'clock and eleven o'clock meals.

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