meat tea

noun — 2 senses

meat tea

noun

1

UK, Dated High tea, at which meat was often served.

April 23.—Mr. and Mrs. James (Miss Fullers that was) came to meat-tea, and we left directly after for the Tank Theatre.1892, George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith, chapter 3, in The Diary of a Nobody:

2

A kind of broth made with meat, such as beef tea.

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