cream tea

cream tea (countable and uncountable, plural cream teas)

1. Tea with cream, specifically (UK) clotted cream.
   • 2011, Elle Newmark, The Sandalwood Tree, Emily Bestler Books / Washington Square Press, →ISBN, page 136:

     It is built around a wide centre street known as the Mall, one of the few semi-flat stretches in the area, & along the Mall one finds scores of English shops with pots of red geraniums at their doors, a proper hotel with good mahogany bedsteads & Peliti’s tearoom, where one drinks cream tea from fine china cups.

2. (UK) An afternoon tea including cream tea and, usually, scones and jam.
   • 2018, Mark Roberts, Killing Time, Head of Zeus Ltd, →ISBN:

     He scanned the next set of pictures and noticed that she was either on her own or with people who were considerably older than her. ‘Bingo,’ said Winters. ‘Ballroom dancing with another woman. Eating cream tea in the parochial club. Watching paint dry in the church hall. And there I was thinking ET was the only image system that could make me want to cry.’

• Cornish cream tea, Devonshire cream tea, Devonshire tea

• camerate, macerate, racemate