lunch
/lʌnt͡ʃ/ noun A1- A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day.
- A break in play between the first and second sessions.
- Any small meal, especially one eaten at a social gathering. · After the funeral there was a lunch for those who didn't go to the cemetery.
Plural lunches
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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For the next sixty-nine evenings he would be dining in cheviot and worsted at dubious _table d’hôtes_, at whirlwind lunch counters, on sandwiches and beer in his hall-bedroom.
We’ll have our lunch here, if you will permit us, and then we shall all three set off for town together.”
When he returned at lunch-time I noticed that his face was very grave.
When Marilla had eaten her lunch Anne persuaded her to go to bed.
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