English breakfast


noun
  1. a hearty breakfast typically including eggs, bacon or ham, toast, and tea or coffee.

Origin of English breakfast

1
First recorded in 1800–10

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How to use English breakfast in a sentence

  • English breakfast Tea is known as such only in America, and is a blend of black teas.

  • But here he had to choose intelligently among orange pekoe, oolong, Ceylon, and English-breakfast teas.

    The Innocents | Sinclair Lewis
  • Never boil any tea but English-breakfast tea; for all others, simple steeping gives the drink in perfection.