chota hazrin.
/ˌtʃəʊtə ˈhɑːz(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˌtʃoʊdə ˈhɑz(ə)ri/, Indian English /ˌtʃhoːʈa ˈxaːz(ᵻ)ri/, /ˌtʃhoːʈa ˈhaːz(ᵻ)ri/ India.
A light early breakfast.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > breakfast or morning meal
forme-metea1175
breakfast1463
disjune1491
jentation1599
jenticulation1658
meat breakfast1728
English breakfast1773
déjeuner1787
dejeune1788
fork-breakfast1812
tea-breakfast1825
cooked breakfast1848
chota hazri1863
hunt-breakfast1877
petit déjeuner1879
brekker1889
brekkie1904
Continental breakfast1911
prayer breakfast1930
Oslo breakfast1937
fry1959
1863 G. O. Trevelyan Dawk Bungalow 11 Are you ready for some chota hazaree?
1866 E. J. Waring Trop. Resident 171 There is one small meal..commonly known in India by the Hindústani name of Chota-haziri, and in our English colonies as ‘Early Tea’.
1883 B. M. Croker Pretty Miss Neville II. 23 At eight o'clock we had chotah-hazree under a big tree in the compound; it consisted of tea, toast, seed-cake, and fruit... We breakfasted at ten o'clock.
1884 D. Aubrey Lett. from Bombay ii. 15 They intended to..come on board at eight o'clock..and have chota hazri on the water.
1888 J. Inglis Tent Life Tigerland v. 63 A hasty chota haziree, or little breakfast.
1907 B. M. Croker Company's Servant xviii Chotah Hazree, 8 annas. Tiffin, 1 rupee, 8 annas.
1927 Blackwood's Mag. Sept. 326/1 I was the only officer in the two companies who got chota hazri that morning.
1928 Cornhill Mag. Oct. 470 We sat down to a very early ‘chota hazaree’ that was laid outside in the moonlight.
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