Meridian (A)

A noonday dram of spirits.

“He received from the hand of the waiter the meridian, which was placed ready at the bar.”—Sir Walter Scott: Redgauntlet, chap. i.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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