Lexic.us

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Definition of Meals

1. meal [n] - See also: meal

Lexicographical Neighbors of Meals

Literary usage of Meals

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report by Iowa Highway Commission (1915)
"ITEMIZED STATEMENT OF TRAVELING EXPENSE—Continued. Items of Expense 1014 Jan., transportation $35.74, hotel and meals $25.50, ..."

2. Annual Report of the Attorney-general of the United States by United States Dept. of Justice, United States Attorney-General (1892)
"Porterage, necessarv .25 For expenses actually and necessarily incurred, as per following statement: meals, New York and Brooklyn 2.00 2. ..."

3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1858)
"The expedition will consist as follows:— The explorer E, carrying nothing, and his attendant E2 Two natives B[ and B8 carrying 3 meals each .. ..or 6 meals ..."

4. The Home Life of the Ancient Greeks by Hugo Blümner (1895)
"The customs of the heroic age differed in many respects from those of later times. In particular, the practice of sitting on chairs at meals then prevailed ..."

5. Chronicles of the Crusades: Being Contemporary Narratives of the Crusade of by Richard, Jean Joinville, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Maqrīzī (1848)
"... two thousand six hundred livres tournois, and their meals at the palace. ... himself and four knights : twelve hundred livres, and their meals at court. ..."

6. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians by Charles Rollin (1869)
"OF PUBLIC meals. LYCURGUS, being desirous to make a yet more effectual war npon effeminacy and luxury, and utterly to extirpate the love of riches, ..."

7. The Montessori method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in by Maria Montessori (1912)
"DISTRIBUTION OF THE meals Another chapter of child diet concerns the distribution of the meals. Here, one principle must dominate, and must be diffused, ..."

8. A Portraiture of Quakerism: Taken from a View of the Education and by Thomas Clarkson (1806)
"Customs at and after meals—Quakers never drink healths at dinner—nor ... Neither do they at their meals, or after their meals, use the same ceremonies as ..."

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