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The daily armistice when forks lay down arms and the whole house remembers it's one tribe.
means The time of day, usually evening, when the supper meal is eaten.
from A simple compound of "supper" plus "time." "Supper" comes through Old French "souper," meaning to take the evening meal, which is related to the verb that gave us "sup" and "soup" — all circling back to the idea of supping a broth at day's end. "Time" is solid old Germanic stock. So the word is literally "the hour of the soup-meal," tacked together as English loves to do.
- split meaning
- Supper once meant a light meal; dinner was the main event
- word root
- From Old French 'souper,' to sip soup
- farm origin
- Named for evening soup after a long day's work
- regional divide
- Still the proper word for dinner across the rural South
evening news at 6pm — cbs evening news, nbc nightly news, abc world news tonight all air during traditional us suppertime
the simpsons couch gag — opens every episode at a time when american families typically gather for supper, since 1989