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tiffin

[tif-in] / ˈtɪf ɪn /
NOUN
(British) a light midday meal
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With her mother's help and recipes, the teenager started cooking and selling 35 tiffin boxes of food a day to office workers.

From BBC

He found a hawker to sell his necklaces and earrings in plastic tiffin boxes on a street full of cheap-jewelry sellers.

From New York Times

On those afternoons, my own untouched tiffin would return home on the back of the tiffinwala’s bicycle.

From Washington Post

In it, Naik writes about dishes inspired by her global travels — but often anchored in her own South Asian heritage — that are fit to pack into a tiffin, an Indian lunch box.

From Washington Post

There are Indian tiffin carriers, ghee pots, woks, a noodle press and falafel molds.

From New York Times