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Meal-tub Plot.
Mealy-mouthed
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
E. Cobham Brewer
18101897
. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Meals.
In the fourteenth century breakfast hour was five; dinner, nine; supper, four. (
Chaucers Works.
)
1
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the breakfast hour was seven; dinner, eleven; supper, six. (
Wright: Domestic Manners.
)
2
Towards the close of the sixteenth century dinner advanced to noon.
3
In Ireland the gentry dined at between two or three in the early part of the eighteenth century. (
Swift: Country Life.
)
4
Meal-tub Plot.
Mealy-mouthed
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