| E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. |
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In the fourteenth century breakfast hour was five; dinner, nine; supper, four. (Chaucer’s Works.) | 1 |
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In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the breakfast hour was seven; dinner, eleven; supper, six. (Wright: Domestic Manners.) | 2 |
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Towards the close of the sixteenth century dinner advanced to noon. | 3 |
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In Ireland the gentry dined at between two or three in the early part of the eighteenth century. (Swift: Country Life.) | 4 |
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