light meal

collocation in English

meaningsoflightandmeal

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light
adjective
uk
/laɪt/us
/laɪt/
not weighing ...
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meal
noun
uk
/mɪəl/us
/mɪəl/
an occasion when food is eaten, or the food that is eaten on such ...
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(Definition oflightandmealfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflight meal

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The name tea also refers to alightmealtaken in the afternoon between 4 and 5, usually consisting of sandwiches, scones and cakes taken with tea.
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Often consumed in conjunction with alightmeal.
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Arrangements continue to be made for meals for the children at mid-day, particularly where it is possible to have alightmeal.
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They are often served as alightmealwith hardboiled eggs and chopped vegetable salad.
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It is eaten for breakfast or as a snack orlightmeal.
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It is a snack which can be served as a potato salad or alightmeal.
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In the afternoon alightmealof bread and/or roasted soybeans with tea or buttermilk may be taken.
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If the meal is alightmeal, it will include the staple food and perhaps one side dish.
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His preferred method was to eat alightmealat five or six in the afternoon, then sleep until midnight.
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A "chakai" is a relatively simple course of hospitality that includes confections, thin tea, and perhaps alightmeal.
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On short and medium haul flights, passengers receive a free drink and a snack orlightmealservice, depending on the length of the flight.
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An additionallightmeal("hesperisma") was sometimes taken in the late afternoon. / "aristodeipnon", literally lunch-dinner, was served in the late afternoon instead of dinner.
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After dinner, tea is taken at about six or seven o'clock in the evening, actually a high tea including alightmeal.
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For people who consume tea as a late afternoonlightmealthe main evening meal is called dinner and served later in the evening, usually after 7pm.
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Many restaurants offer their house "pikila" (variety) a platter with a smorgasbord of various mezedes that can be served immediately to customers looking for a quick orlightmeal.
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He took advantage of this quiet period to test his spatial awareness and motor control, which he found was broadly unaffected by weightlessness, and to eat alightmeal.
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For some, especially in the upper social classes, tea is of an afternoonlightmeal, often just cake, buns, scones or sandwiches served, irrespective of the beverage consumed with it.
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