principal meal

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Breakfast is with but few the principal meal of the day; for those, however, who rise early it is the one taken with the best appetite.

From Popular Books on Natural Science For Practical Use in Every Household, for Readers of All Classes by Bernstein, Aaron David

Though called a supper, the meal was to be a sumptuous one; moreover, the principal meal of the day was commonly spoken of as supper.

From Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern by Talmage, James Edward

He walked rapidly in the direction of Arcadia House, for this was the hour of the principal meal with the Doomsmen, and the streets were entirely deserted.

From The Doomsman by Sutphen, Van Tassel

In the first place, the principal meal, and the only one which required much preparation, was in the middle of the day.

From The Woman Who Vowed The Demetrian by Harding, Ellison

The first consisted of a very few kinds of coarse food,—generally not more than two or three at once,—such as coarse whole-meal bread, rice, potatoes, apples, etc., and was the principal meal.

From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)