TEATIME

tea, afternoon tea, teatime

(noun) a light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes; โ€œan Englishman would interrupt a war to have his afternoon teaโ€

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

teatime (plural teatimes)

(chiefly, British) The traditional time, in the late afternoon, for serving tea (the meal).

Source: Wiktionary



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26 November 2024

TRANSPOSITION

(noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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