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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.
In Australia, dinner was always used to mean the main evening meal, and supper always referred to light snacks eaten late in the evening. Merriam-Webster is wise showing that words change meaning over centuries and from one nation to another.
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