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pendigestatory interludicule: synonyms: high tea, collation ???

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afternoon tea which is (according to Wikipedia):
a light meal typically eaten between 3.30 pm and 5 pm. Observance of the custom originated amongst the wealthy social classes in England in the 1840s. [...] By the end of the nineteenth century, afternoon tea developed to its current form and was observed by both the upper and middle classes. It had become ubiquitous, even in the isolated village in the fictionalised memoir Lark Rise to Candleford, where a cottager lays out what she calls a "visitor's tea" for their landlady [...]

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^{photo: By joyosity (Tea at the Rittenhouse Hotel) [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0}
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George: As it sounds to me as if my being patron of this complete cowpat of a book would set the seal once and for all on my reputation as an utter turnip-head!

Johnson: Well! It is a reputation well-deserved, sir! Farewell! [sees Blackadder with tea tray as he leaves]

Blackadder: Leaving already, Doctor? Not staying for your pendigestatory interludicule?

Johnson: No, sir! Show me out!

Blackadder: Certainly sir; anything I can do to facilitate your velocitous extramuralisation.

BBC. Blackadder, season 3: Ink and Incapability