REFECTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does refection mean? 

• REFECTION (noun)
  The noun REFECTION has 1 sense:

1. a light meal or repast

  Familiarity information: REFECTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REFECTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A light meal or repast

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("refection" is a kind of...):

meal; repast (the food served and eaten at one time)

 Context examples 

“It is the refection, madam,” said he.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You will see that he hath refection, and such a purse of gold as may defray his charges, for indeed it is great honor to any court to have within it so noble and gentle a cavalier.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)