Yup, everything I'm googling indicates that "dinner" means the big meal of the day, whether at noon or in the evening. And noon dinners were for the working class, farmers, servants. I guess at night they just gnawed on a crust of bread and fell into bed exhausted!
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Date: Jul. 18th, 2007 01:02 pm (UTC)