thick teas

Noun

thick tea (plural thick teas)

1. (UK, dated) High tea or an informal late afternoon or early evening meal, more substantial than afternoon tea.
   • Her appearance, her dress, her manners; what they were pleased to term her "stand-offishness"; her shortcomings as a housekeeper; her ignorance in the matter of mending under-linen; her novel-reading and piano- playing — all these had been toothsome morsels, far more enjoyable than the heavy pies...1864, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Hodgson Yates, Temple Bar - Volume 12, page 220
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see thick, tea.
   • Americans prefer 'pointy,' light- flavored, high-grown teas from Dimbula or Nuwara Eliya; the English like 'thick' teas, with more body, from Uva," he explained.1966, National Geographic - Volume 129, page 471