five-o'clock tea

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The English send word when you can be received, and you pay each other frosty formal calls, and then are asked to five-o'clock tea or some other wildly exciting function of similar importance.

From As Seen By Me by Bell, Lilian

Its habit of getting up late you'll agree That it carries too far, when I say That it frequently breakfasts at five-o'clock tea, And dines on the following day.

From The Best Nonsense Verses by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam

The united party—numbering, I should think, nearly one hundred—next proceeded on board the 'Sunbeam,' for a very late five-o'clock tea and a hasty inspection of the vessel.

From The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by Pritchett, R. T. (Robert Taylor)

To-morrow was Sunday, and the proposal referred, clearly, to the custom of "five-o'clock" tea, known to him only by the contemporary novel of manners and the catchy advertisement of table-linen.

From The Finer Grain by James, Henry

In the little shop parlour now sat a woman and her husband, at their five-o'clock tea.

From Adrien Leroy by Garvice, Charles