elevenses

IPA（発音記号）

/ɪˈlɛv(ə)nzɪz/

名詞

イギリス英語 くだけた表現 不可算名詞 通常

(Britain, informal) A short mid-morning break taken around eleven o'clock for a drink or light snack.

日本語の意味

イギリス非公式の用語で、午前11時前後に飲み物や軽食を伴いながらとる短い休憩を指す。

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We took elevenses in the garden, sharing tea and biscuits before returning to work.

庭で午前11時ごろにおやつ休憩を取り、紅茶とビスケットを分け合ってから仕事に戻った。

詳細

意味（1）

(Britain, informal) A short mid-morning break taken around eleven o'clock for a drink or light snack.

The harvestmen who board in the farm-houses fare sumptuously during the month of harvest.— […] at eleven o'clock in the morning, and four in the afternoon, they have each a large light plum-bun, with a pint of ale a piece, carried into the field, to encourage them to work cheerfully. These extra refreshments they call, in their provincial language, their elevenses and fourses. I could not at first imagine what the servants meant by talking of carrying the harvestmen their elevenses and fourses, till Mrs. Henley explained that it was a vulgar abbreviation of the four-o'clock and eleven o'clock meals.

詳細

elevenses （ plural ）