tiffin

• The mini-tiffin, a Saturday special, is a godsend (heh) for the indecisive: a lentil-flour savory doughnut, kichiri (spiced rice and lentils), mini-dosa, mini-idli with spicy sambar, and other goodies. —  Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories
• AS THE menu says, the word tiffin harks back to the 19th century and the days of British rule in India. —  The Daily Record - Home
• Arriving at the end of this inlet we anchored for tiffin, and early in the afternoon commenced to beat back against a northerly wind During the morning I had observed a number of boats crossing the lake from all directions and converging on a certain point, and now, on rounding a sharp headland, we suddenly found ourselves in the midst of hundreds of craft of many descriptions, each bearing a load of gaily-dressed holiday-makers, while several long canoes, each paddled by twenty or thirty men, raced backwards and forwards to a great beating of gongs and a firing of guns. —  Life and sport in China Second Edition
• It is served at tiffin, and after you have eaten it you waddle to your room in a congested state and sleep it off. —  In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country
• So you will pass muster very well Before beginning to wash and change, Stanley had given Meinik the clothes he had carried down with him; and when he went out to take a short look round before tiffin--for which the servants were already laying the cloth--he found the man, now looking like a respectable Burman, standing near the door. —  On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War

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