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. Shaks., Rich. III., V. iii. 47. It’s Supper time my Lord, it’s nine a clocke.
1677. Earl Essex, in Essex Papers (Camden), II. 134. It being neer supper time we went to supper.
1766. Earl 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. Violet 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.
