subs. (common).—A thick slice of bread and butter. Fr., une fondante.
1885. D. TENNANT, in The English Illustrated Magazine, June, p. 604, ‘The London Ragamuffin.’ ‘DOORSTEPS,’ I found, were thick slices of bread spread with jam.
1890. Spectator, 3 May, Review of vol. I., ‘Slang and its Analogues.’ … The extraordinary ‘bouncer’ that a very common request at Lockhart’s coffeehouses in London is for ‘a DOORSTEP and a sea-rover,’ i.e., for a halfpenny slice of bread and butter and a herring, &c.
