five-o'clock tea

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There is a fallacy among certain tea-fanciers that the origin of five-o'clock tea was due to hygienic demand.

From The Little Tea Book by Hood, George Washington

What a craze five-o'clock tea is with you women!

From Uncle Max by Carey, Rosa Nouchette

I breakfasted alone in my own cabin, where everything was provided for me that I could desire, and always lunched and took five-o'clock tea with the officers.

From The Fixed Period by Trollope, Anthony

The countess had invited Lady Cambrey to a five-o'clock tea.

From A Mad Love by Brame, Charlotte M.

It was before the days of five-o'clock tea.

From Chateau and Country Life in France by Waddington, Mary Alsop King