nonemeat

English

Noun

nonemeat (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of noonmeat (“midday meal”)
   • 1850, Robert Southey, Southey's Common-Place Book, Voluime 3, page 17:

     Nonemeat not mentioned now, but drinking in its stead, for which half an hour is allowed

   • 1894, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company, page 79:

     [H]e growled, “were this France, or even Guienne, we should have a fresh haunch for our nonemeat."

   • 1896 May, John Bennett, His Father's Price, in St. Nicholas, volume 23, number 7:

     COME, Wat; be yare* with thy dues, man, and do na keep me waiting, or I shall be late to nonemeat.†

     *Ready. †An afternoon meal.

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• meantone