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Sunday dinner

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1602, OED Evaluation: N/A

A large family meal traditionally eaten on Sunday, often served in the middle of the day after church.

ExampleMeaning
Now, I had several calls that I couldn't ah, take on and I was a member of St-Thomas'-Church then and I was always able to work with church you-know, Sunday morning. That didn't keep me. I had things arranged for Sunday dinner you-know so that everything was handy to do when I got back from church. I was always able to do that.
A large family meal traditionally eaten on Sunday, often served in the middle of the day after church.
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Speaker: North-York around Bathurst-and-Finch. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: Which at that point in time was way out in the boonies, it was just ah miles and miles away from anything. And ah, I mean I remember driving down to um my grandmother's house, to ah go for Sunday dinner every week, and we would go by farms as we were going south 'cause they lived Bayview-and-Eglington and we were going south from where we were. We would go by horse farms and cow farms and sheep farms and-stuff-like-that.
A large family meal traditionally eaten on Sunday, often served in the middle of the day after church.
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We had one meal that we ate together a week and that was at ah College and Bathurst at a place called the Beefeater, next to Mars. And my dinner was, every Sunday, the same thing. It was the big Sunday dinner. Chili-con-carne and toast, pineapple-sundae and a vanilla-Coke. And then the rest of the week, we spent- we had a jar of coffee and we used to eat stale donuts. We used to get it at (inc) for ten cents a dozen.
A large family meal traditionally eaten on Sunday, often served in the middle of the day after church.
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Interviewer: What kind of traditions did you have? Speaker: Um. We could basically- during the week if you-know we were out as I got older- if we were out and-whatever that 's fine- dinner- Sunday-dinner was Sunday-dinner, um, we didn 't- and- and growing-up as a child we never ate dinner 'til (until) my father came home. Whatever time it- that may be. It could be eight-o-clock it could be nine-o-clock at night ...
A large family meal traditionally eaten on Sunday, often served in the middle of the day after church.
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Interviewer: Do you carry traditions that other people don't? Speaker: Um...well I always remembered- like I don 't do it so much now 'cause it's summertime and that but S-- Sunday dinners was always a traditional English Sunday dinner and um going to church. M-- my religious faith is very important to me and again d-- when- when I look at who- the pe-- there's still lots of people go to church ...
A large family meal traditionally eaten on Sunday, often served in the middle of the day after church.
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... the tradition, and (inc) no, we're not gonna date. We're like de-facto engaged. Soon as you walked into this house, and you're gonna be given the third degree," and- and I was like, "How do I break this to my parents?" you-know? So it's after Sunday dinner, they're putting all the food away and they're putting- you-know, my mother's ready to clean the plates and the table and so am I, and of course I had to you-know, know how to do all the chores.
A large family meal traditionally eaten on Sunday, often served in the middle of the day after church.
... he met my parents, the next night, I went to go meet his, and they were going away to whatever, down south for a couple weeks, and all this time, the two weeks that they were away, they- my father- well, Demetri always kept on coming over on Sundays for the Sunday dinner, the major Sunday dinner of course, and he would- getting close to the day that they- they would come back ...
A large family meal traditionally eaten on Sunday, often served in the middle of the day after church.
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Interviewer: What kinds of meals did you eat growing up? What- do- Speaker: You know my mother would buy a four-pound roast of beef for Saturday- for Sunday dinner and we'd eat Sunday and we'd eat all week off that darn thing. Interviewer: Really? Speaker: Yeah. You- well half the week anyway. You'd have it ah cold the next night and then she'd make a stew with it the night after and sandwiches ...
A large family meal traditionally eaten on Sunday, often served in the middle of the day after church.
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Um, I have a lot of memories actually, 'cause my grandmother was one of those people that insisted all their children come to Sunday dinner. So we went, even after we had moved to Brantford, we went to Sunday dinner at my grandmother's every Sunday, this is without fail so, um, yeah there was a lot of time spent- I have a lot of memories, I mean we grew up mostly on the Danforth,
A large family meal traditionally eaten on Sunday, often served in the middle of the day after church.
Um, I have a lot of memories actually, 'cause my grandmother was one of those people that insisted all their children come to Sunday dinner. So we went, even after we had moved to Brantford, we went to Sunday dinner at my grandmother's every Sunday, this is without fail so, um, yeah there was a lot of time spent- I have a lot of memories, I mean we grew up mostly on the Danforth ...
A large family meal traditionally eaten on Sunday, often served in the middle of the day after church.
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Interviewer: Did you sell your eggs or was it just for yourselves? Speaker: No, we didn't sell them, we just had them ourselves. Interviewer: Right, right. Speaker: Every once in a while my father would kill a chicken for Sunday dinner. Or maybe a special dinner if we had visitors. We would have chicken. I really liked chicken in those day. Nowadays I can take it or leave it because the store-bought chickens don't have much flavour.
A large family meal traditionally eaten on Sunday, often served in the middle of the day after church.
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Interviewer: When you were growing up, were there special traditions in the family? Speaker: Traditions hmm. Interviewer: For example was Sunday-dinner a tradition? Speaker: Yup, roast-beef. Every Sunday. Every Sunday was roast-beef. That's what we had for supper. Every Sunday.
A large family meal traditionally eaten on Sunday, often served in the middle of the day after church.
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Well, on a Sunday- well, especially at your place, people would always come to visit on Sunday, or we'd all go there for a Sunday dinner, eh? And at that time, it was breakfast, dinner and supper. Because the women mostly stayed at home, they didn't work out, and ah, you had your big meal at noon, because when you farmed, you were hungry by noon, eh? And then supper would just be leftovers or home-made soup or-something I-guess, eh?
A large family meal traditionally eaten on Sunday, often served in the middle of the day after church.