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Definition of Square meal
1. Noun. A substantial and nourishing meal. "He seldom got three square meals a day"
Definition of Square meal
1. Noun. (idiomatic) A satisfying meal, especially suitable for one performing physical labor. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Square Meal
Literary usage of Square meal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Sixty Years on the Plains, Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting by William Thomas Hamilton (1905)
"A Dismal Camp. Snow-Bound. Glimpse of the Great American Desert. Camp on Carson
River. A Pah Ute's square meal. Gratified Squaws and Skinned Beavers. ..."
2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"station," and we were there to try our first " square meal. ... 1869 They wanted
what they term in California " a square meal at the Howling Wilderness ..."
3. Our New West: Records of Travel Between the Mississippi River and the by Samuel Bowles (1869)
"... square meal" Feature of Pacific Coast Civilization—The Lumber Wealth and Water
and Forest Beauty of Puget's Sound—Victoria and Vancouver's Island—New ..."
4. Our New West: Records of Travel Between the Mississippi River and the by Samuel Bowles (1869)
"... and Olympia— The Forests of Washington—The " square meal" Feature of Pacific
Coast Civilization—The Lumber Wealth and Water and Forest Beauty of Puget's ..."
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