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"elevenses" Definitions
  1. a very small meal, for example biscuits with tea or coffee, that people sometimes have at about eleven o’clock in the morning
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Because it's not a warzone unless there's Elevenses and troops with fresh breath.
So far, he has signed Elevenses, a French-Scandinavian bakery; and Sotto La Luna, an Italian restaurant and gelato stand.
Then she intoned, "I love a milky tea," as if she were having elevenses with the Queen—not chugging boba in Queens.
It's the last thing I throw in the trash, and the last thing I do before we go out for our elevenses is to take out the trash.
A banana after breakfast, a sneaky slice of toast before lunch, obviously a chocolate biscuit for elevenses, and, oh alright then, maybe just a few bread sticks before dinner.
They are known to start their day with a cup, created elevenses as an excuse to indulge in the late morning, and then might enjoy afternoon tea, with its tiny sandwiches and delectable scones.
We drank tall lattes from Archetype and ate ridiculously good focaccia at Farine and Four, then woofed down fried chicken for elevenses at Time Out Foods in advance of lunch at Block 16, downtown.
China, where dogs were once rounded up and slaughtered on the ground that keeping pets was bourgeois, has gone mad for cutesy breeds like Pomeranians, whose wolfish ancestors would have swallowed them whole for elevenses.
Brand and shopkeeper Matt check out Elevenses (a card game about being a 1920s socialite), Pandemic (a mainstay in cooperative board games), and Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu (which adds some Lovecraft flavor to the Pandemic formula).
There are, as he fears, too many churches visited, too many antique shops, too many meals (there's enough jam here for a year's worth of elevenses), and simply too much diary, the extracts here doubling the number of pages taken up in the previous installments.
Elevenses for One, and Bowling Solitaire, The Dice Tower. Retrieved 16 October 2020. and was included along with their game Elevenses for One.Brady, Nicole (2017).
Typical elevenses for two Elevenses () is a short break taken at around 11:00a.m. to consume a drink or snack. The names and details vary among countries.
EGG Series #11: Elevenses for One Solitaire, SAHM Reviews. Retrieved 16 October 2020. A digital port using Java was created by Timothy S. Adam.Adam, Timothy (2005).
Elevenses, eaten at 11 as the name suggests, typically consists of tea or coffee, often with a few biscuits. Sometimes, toast or chocolate bars are eaten instead.
Morning typically encompasses activities such as bathing, eating breakfast and possibly elevenses, getting dressed, and, for some people, planning the day's schedule or reading a morning newspaper.
Elevenses in Hungarian is called Tíz-órai which translates to "of the 10 o'clock", referring to "the meal of the 10 o'clock". This is a break between breakfast and lunch, when it is time for a light meal or snack. In schools the early lunch break is called a Tíz-órai break. Parallel to the word Elevenses, Tíz-órai is often called Tenses "Tenzeez" by Hungarian-Americans and Hungarian-Britons.
For elevenses, Winnie-the-Pooh preferred honey on bread with condensed milk. Paddington Bear often took elevenses at the antique shop on Portobello Road run by his friend Mr Gruber, for which Paddington would buy buns and Mr Gruber would make cocoa (hot chocolate). In the Middle-earth stories by J. R. R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings), it is a meal eaten by Hobbits between second breakfast and luncheon.
In Australia and New Zealand, elevenses is known as "morning tea" and occurs at approximately 10:30am. Many workplaces organize morning teas for staff to welcome new employees, for special occasions such as a birthday, or simply as a regular event. Food will sometimes be provided by the business, but often employees will be expected to bring food to share.
During the first decades of the 19th century, elevenses consisted of drinking whiskey. In modern times, hourly workers take a break known as a coffee break, typically around 10:00am. Oftentimes, this is done in a break room, and small snacks may be eaten as well. It is common for young school children to have a short snack break called morning snack.
This is offered in the morning before lunch, usually between 9:00am and 11:00am. This snack is common in schools for children under the age of six. Older children are not offered snacks during school hours but rather are expected to eat only their midday meal, called lunch, during school. A small population of Americans do take British elevenses.
It is served with pretzels, sweet mustard, and wheat beer. The meal is roughly similar in concept to the British elevenses. In Poland second breakfast usually consists of some snacks like sandwiches, or pastries, but may consist of light dessert- type dishes like chocolate pudding or kisiel. First and second breakfast is also a common custom in farm areas of North America.
British workers by law, have the right to a minimum of a twenty-minute break in a shift of six hours; government guidelines describe this as "a tea or lunch break". More informally, this is known as elevenses, i.e. a couple of hours before the midday meal, traditionally served at 11am. Builder's tea in a mug is typical of a quick tea break in the working day.
Not a meal as such, but a chance to "down tools" (or get away from the computer) and relax from work for 10–15 minutes. This may occur mid- morning (see elevenses) or mid-afternoon. It may equally involve coffee, and almost inevitably, biscuits. Around the second World War, the drinks were served by the workplace's tea lady, a position that is now almost defunct.
In many Spanish-speaking cultures, elevenses is observed under the name la once (in Spanish, once means 'eleven'). However, in Chile it has shifted to the afternoon, sometimes replacing the traditional dinner. In the 2010–2011 National Food Consumption Survey, around 80% of the Chileans reported having once. This is due to once sometimes replacing the traditional dinner in Chile, which only 30% of the population reported having.
Falcone and Cyrille Verdeaux of Clearlight have collaborated in Spirits Burning (under the name Spirits Burning & Clearlight). Additionally, Falcone produced the 2014 Clearlight release Impressionist Symphony. Collaborating with Daevid Allen, Falcone released Glissando Grooves on Voiceprint Records in 2006. Falcone and Allen were part of Weird Biscuit Teatime, which released their first album on Voiceprint in 2005, and the 2015 follow-up, "Elevenses," which was released under the band name Daevid Allen Weird Quartet.
A coffee break in the United States and elsewhere is a short mid-morning rest period granted to employees in business and industry, corresponding with the Commonwealth terms "elevenses", "smoko" (in Australia), "morning tea", "tea break", or even just "tea". An afternoon coffee break, or afternoon tea, often occurs as well. The coffee break originated in the late 19th century in Stoughton, Wisconsin, with the wives of Norwegian immigrants. The city celebrates this every year with the Stoughton Coffee Break Festival.
Coffee break area : For more see article on Coffee culture. A coffee break in the United States and elsewhere is a short mid- morning rest period granted to employees in business and industry, corresponding with the Commonwealth terms "elevenses", "smoko" (in Australia), "morning tea", "tea break", or even just "tea". An afternoon coffee break, or afternoon tea, often occurs as well. The origin of the tea break, as is now incorporated into the law of most countries, stems from research undertaken in England in the early 1900s.
In addition to spreading on toast or bread, one or two level teaspoonfuls added to each quart of soup enriched the flavour while enhancing the nutritional value. It could also be used as an emergency gravy without any addition except hot water for diluting. It was used to strengthen normal gravy, and flavour stews and dishes containing minced meat. A half a teaspoonful added to a glass of hot water or hot milk produced a drink consumed at elevenses, teatime, and as a nightcap.
Cullen was the setting for Doris Davidson's romantic novel The Three Kings, named after the three rocks at the east end of Cullen beach. The local writer Simon Farquhar set his first two plays, Candy Floss Kisses and Elevenses with Twiggy, in the village and they were produced by BBC Radio 4. Samuel Johnson had less passion for Cullen. According to James Boswell, writing in The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, the pair considered that Cullen had "a comfortable appearance, though but a very small town, and the houses mostly poor buildings".
In 2005, she joined the cast of the television show America's Next Top Model for Cycles 5–9 as one of four judges, and a year later, she appeared on the cover of the "Icons" issue of Swindle magazine. She also returned to modelling, fronting a major television, press, and billboard campaign for Marks & Spencer, the British department-store chain. Her involvement in the advertising campaign has been credited for reviving Marks and Spencer's fortunes. In 2006, she portrayed herself as a 19-year-old in the radio play Elevenses with Twiggy, for BBC Radio 4's The Afternoon Play series.
His friend Mr. Gruber, with whom Paddington has his elevenses every day, owns an antique shop on the Portobello Road. In 2008, Ruth Rendell published a novel set in the area entitled, Portobello. It is the setting for Paulo Coelho's 2007 novel, The Witch of Portobello. In the 1970 novel The Chinese Agent by author Michael Moorcock, a world-renowned jewel-thief more than meets his match when he attempts to swipe a brooch from a Portobello Road market stall, and is hunted down through the streets like a dog by the sharp-eyed market traders.
The French title was one of Alan's many jokes." She adds that despite the French title the magazine is deeply British, "with articles on such questions as the origin of stilton, the history of Chelsea buns or how "elevenses" started". The magazine was cited in 2015 when it printed an article which said that Cornish pasties were invented in London.Cornish pasty 'was invented by cookery teachers in London'", The Independent, 30 August 2019 Further controversy was sparked in 2016, when an article rebutted the supposedly French origins of the Canadian dish cipaille, tracing them instead to barges on the Yorkshire canals in 18th- century England.
Simon Farquhar Simon Alexander Farquhar is a British writer. During his time at the University of Aberdeen he was an active writer and performer in the university's drama group, Centre Stage. His early one-act plays were staged at the Aberdeen Arts Centre, until a radio script set in Cullen, Candy Floss Kisses, was picked up by actor and producer Martin Jarvis and commissioned for BBC Radio 4. This was followed by another Cullen-based drama, Elevenses with Twiggy, set during the dying days of the Sixties and featuring a cameo performance by Twiggy herself.Harriet Devine Playwrights of the Royal Court 1956-2006, London: Faber, 2006 His first full-length stage play, the Aberdeen- based Rainbow Kiss, opened at the Royal Court in April 2006.
In J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Hobbit, the protagonist Bilbo Baggins eats a second breakfast, and in the preface to its sequel, The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien mentions that hobbits prefer to eat six meals a day. In Peter Jackson's film adaptation of The Fellowship of the Ring, as Aragorn is leading the hobbits on a march, Pippin – hoping for a meal break – is horrified when Merry tells him that the man probably doesn't know about second breakfast. Pippin goes on to ask if he knows about the other meals commonly eaten by hobbits, including elevenses, luncheon, afternoon tea, dinner, and supper. Aragorn throws an apple to each of the pair to tide them over until their next "regular" meal break.
It generally consists of an infusion (tea, mate, coffee, mate cocido, etc.) and a baked snack (scones, bread, toasts, cake, facturas, etc.), usually accompanied with dulce de leche, honey, butter or jam. In the Philippines, merienda (Filipino: meryenda or minandál) is a generic term encompassing two light meals: the first is a morning snack that may correspond to either brunch, elevenses, or second breakfast; the second one is the equivalent of afternoon tea. Merienda taken in the early evening around sunset just before or in place of dinner is meanwhile distinctly referred to as merienda cena. Broadly, merienda is any sort of dish or snack in a portion smaller than the traditional "full meal" consisting of rice and a complementary viand (unless the merienda is taken as brunch or merienda cena), coupled with either a cool or hot drink (usually coffee).
On 18 June 2010 Thirsty Merc released their third album, Mousetrap Heart, which was recorded mostly in Los Angeles with Matt Wallace co-producing, while two tracks were produced in Melbourne with Gravina. Bernard Zuel of The Sydney Morning Herald opined that "we buy, or actively avoid, songs that excite a response in us but radio wants songs that fit in, that don't provoke strong responses, that offend the fewest people ... this [album] is a collection of extremely professional, well-considered, carefully targeted songs whose key performance indicators are ticked off one by one in a manner so efficient you suspect band meetings must have an agenda, notes secretary and double-cream biscuits for elevenses". The band toured nationally in July 2010 to support the album, while its lead single, the title track, had appeared in May and charted in the Top 30 on the ARIA Singles Chart. The second single, "Tommy and Krista", was released in September, which peaked at No. 10 in New Zealand.

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