cat-lap

Real first-rate suppers; not like Lady Jane's bread-and-butter and cat-lap, as Sir Nicholas says, just handed round.

Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

English tea, at which Mrs. Houghton laughed, saying, 'Time was, I called it cat-lap!

Nuttie's Father Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Do you think I'm going to let housekeeper's cat-lap be drunk at my table?

Jezebel's Daughter Wilkie Collins 1856

Sergeant had slept in the stables through the night, and had had his breakfast brought to him, warm, by his own wife; but he had sat up among the straw, and had winked at her, and had asked her to give him threepence of gin with the cat-lap.

An Old Man's Love Anthony Trollope 1848

I longed for the days of the Spectator, when I might have laid my penny on the bar, and retired without ceremony — But no — this blessed decoction was circulated under the auspices of some half-crazed blue-stocking or other, and we were saddled with all the formality of an entertainment, for this miserable allowance of a cockle-shell full of cat-lap per head.”

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

I told old Whiskers that he could go and boil his job and his head together and sell the soup for cat-lap. "

Here are Ladies James Stephens 1916

"I can't say I am particularly attached to the cat-lap," he said, laughing; "I've had rather too much of it when I've been in training -- half-and-half, warm tea, and cold-drawn castor-oil.

Aurora Floyd. A Novel Mary Elizabeth 1863

I longed for the days of the Spectator, when I might have laid my penny on the bar, and retired without ceremony -- But no -- this blessed decoction was circulated under the auspices of some half-crazed blue-stocking or other, and we were saddled with all the formality of an entertainment, for this miserable allowance of a cockle-shell full of cat-lap per head. "

St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801