ˈsupper-time
The time at which supper is taken.
| 1362 Langl. P. Pl. A. vii. 250 Keep sum til soper tyme. c 1400 Destr. Troy 3398 When yt seyit to Sopertyme he seruyt hir well With all daintes on dese & drynkes ynow. c 1420 Sir Amadas (Weber) 208 Sir Amadas was com and don lyght, And hit was soper tyme. 1518 H. Watson Hist. Oliver of Castile (Roxb.) M 4, But bycause that the souper tyme approched..he abode not longe there. 1594 Shakes. Rich. III, v. iii. 47 It's Supper time my Lord, it's nine a clocke. 1677 Earl of Essex in Essex Papers (Camden) II. 134 It being neer supper time we went to supper. 1766 Earl of March in Jesse Selwyn & Contemp. (1843) II. 17 The letters come here generally about supper-time. 1848 Thackeray Van. Fair li, The greatest triumph of all was at supper-time. She was placed at the grand exclusive table with His Royal Highness. 1902 V. Jacob Sheep-Stealers xiv, She yawned, and wondered what she could do to amuse herself until supper-time. |
| attrib. 1580 Tusser Husb. (1878) 178 marg., Supper time huswiferie. |