tea-dinner

I breakfasted and asked for my bill; the bill amounted to little or nothing — half-a-crown I think for tea-dinner, sundry jugs of ale, bed and breakfast.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

We found our tea-dinner waiting our arrival at the inn.

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

I went there again to tea-dinner last evening, and we talked about everything and everybody under Heaven nearly!

The British Association's Visit to Montreal, 1884 : letters Clara Rayleigh

Our tea-dinner was announced: it was served in the hall.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various

And then to see that active little figure so noiselessly busy getting the tea-dinner, which she always insisted on doing to save "mother" the trouble; indeed, I think the tea would have lost its flavour for that dear mother had Pollie's hands not prepared it.

Little Pollie Or a Bunch of Violets Gertrude P. Dyer

An old working housekeeper "did" for him, cooking his simple meals -- eggs and bacon alternating with chops for breakfast, and mutton and bread and jam for his tea-dinner, with a fowl for Sundays -- keeping his few plain rooms clean and his socks mended.

Sisters Ada Cambridge 1885

After the sort of tea-dinner was over the three girls went out by themselves on the sands.

Girls of the Forest L. T. Meade 1884

"What ails you at tea-dinner, John? it's very tasty and homely."

Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers Ian Maclaren 1878

By the time the gentlemen had stabled and fed the horses and were ready, Karl and I between us had arranged a bright cosy little apartment with a capital tea-dinner on the table.

Station Amusements 1871

We have a tea-dinner ready, for we felt that you might come at any time.

First in the Field A Story of New South Wales George Manville Fenn 1870