AFTER TWELVE, subs. phr. (Eton).—From noon till 2 P.M.
1861. WHYTE-MELVILLE, Good for Nothing, 39. I used to visit him regularly in the dear old college from the AFTER TWELVE.
1864. B. HEMYNG, Eton School Days, vi. I tell you plainly if you are not in Sixpenny AFTER TWELVE, I will do my best to give you a hiding wherever I meet you.
1883. J. BRINSLEY RICHARDS, Seven Years at Eton, xiv. One day AFTER TWELVE the three of us passed over Windsor Bridge in the same condition as the ‘bold adventurers’ alluded to in Gray’s Ode.
