thick tea

Britain dated

(chiefly Britain, dated) High tea or an informal late afternoon or early evening meal, more substantial than afternoon tea. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see thick, tea.

Japanese Meaning

英国（古風な表現）において、アフタヌーンティーよりも内容が充実している、高茶やハイティーに相当する、遅い午後または早い夕方に食される非公式な食事。

What is this buttons?

When unexpected guests arrived at dusk, my grandmother quickly set out a thick tea of stews, bread, and cheese.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

想定外の客が夕暮れに訪れると、祖母は急いでシチューやパン、チーズのハイティーを用意した。

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(chiefly Britain, dated) High tea or an informal late afternoon or early evening meal, more substantial than afternoon tea.

Her appearance, her dress, her manners; what they were pleased to term her "stand-offishness"; her shortcomings as a housekeeper; her ignorance in the matter of mending under-linen; her novel-reading and piano- playing — all these had been toothsome morsels, far more enjoyable than the heavy pies, the thick chops, and the sardines which figured in that horrible Mesopotamian meal known as a "thick tea;" and had been picked to the very bone.

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