tiffen

Dear Lakshmi, This is always a quick evening tiffen for our kids.

Semiya Upma Lakshmik 2006

They get up about nine, breakfast and pay or receive visits, then tiffen, siesta, a drive to the Apollo Bunder, to hear the band, or to meet their husbands at the Fort, dine and bed — that is the programme of the day.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

I got a whiff of that later in the day, when I was nursing my leg and chewing my nails on the verandah after tiffen, and heard Littler's three brigadiers talking behind the chick; Nicol-son must have been spreading the tale of my exploits, and they were full of it.

Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

I got a whiff of that later in the day, when I was nursing my leg and chewing my nails on the verandah after tiffen, and heard Littler's three brigadiers talking behind the chick; Nicol-son must have been spreading the tale of my exploits, and they were full of it.

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

We rode back to our halting place to lunch -- or tiffen, or whatever it's called in these parts -- a sort of solid breakfast at one o'clock, -- on the side of the pony track; the Chinese pack-ponies wandered round eating bamboo leaves and tough looking reeds.

From Edinburgh to India & Burmah 1900

They get up about nine, breakfast and pay or receive visits, then tiffen, siesta, a drive to the Apollo Bunder, to hear the band, or to meet their husbands at the Fort, dine and bed – that is the programme of the day.

The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton William Henry Burton Wilkins 1897

They get up about nine, breakfast and pay or receive visits, then tiffen, siesta, a drive to the Apollo Bunder, to hear the band, or to meet their husbands at the Fort, dine and bed -- that is the programme of the day.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II W. H. Wilkins 1882

I say to him, 'Three gentlemen are coming to tiffen.'

Rujub, the Juggler 1867

Captain Gill had been so kind as to send after me a choice tiffen, together with table and chairs, into this wilderness.

A Woman's Journey Round the World Ida Pfeiffer 1827

After tiffen (lunch) I was to see the town, and be presented at court.

A Woman's Journey Round the World Ida Pfeiffer 1827