"cream tea" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: cream teas [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} cream tea (countable and uncountable, plural cream teas)
  1. Tea with cream, specifically (UK) clotted cream. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-cream_tea-en-noun-lBxLbTuP Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 75 25 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 83 17 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 68 32
  2. (UK) An afternoon tea including cream tea and, usually, scones and jam. Tags: UK, countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Meals, Tea Translations (light afternoon meal with cream tea): 奶油茶點 (Chinese Mandarin), 奶油茶点 (nǎiyóu chádiǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), iltapäivätee (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-cream_tea-en-noun-2~jX~rwC Disambiguation of Meals: 21 79 Disambiguation of Tea: 26 74 Categories (other): British English Disambiguation of 'light afternoon meal with cream tea': 33 67
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Cornish cream tea, Devonshire cream tea, Devonshire tea

Inflected forms

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