principal meal

They protest that they vastly prefer dinner at seven, but what with the servants' dinners at midday, and husbands who prefer the old-fashioned hour, and one thing and another, they take their principal meal at one.

They, who would practice it, should mount before their principal Meal, which should be about Noon, and never ride after it.

The Jews were accustomed to have only two regular meals in the day: breakfast, or dinner, as it is here called, about twelve of the middle of the day; and supper, which was the principal meal, in the evening, after the heat of the day was past.

The principal meal is eaten in the afternoon when they return from their plantations.

During the winter, country people took their principal meal in the evening, the morning and midday hours being the pleasantest for being in the open air.