meal vs tea party

meal

noun
  • Food served or eaten as a repast. 

  • The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour or a coarser blend than flour. 

  • A speck or spot. 

  • A part; a fragment; a portion. 

  • Coordinate term: flour 

  • A break taken by a police officer in order to eat. 

  • Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack). 

verb
  • To defile or taint. 

tea party

noun
  • A semi-formal afternoon social gathering at which tea, sandwiches and cakes are served. 

  • An interaction characterized by a high degree of courtesy, delicacy, deference, and avoidance of conflict. 

  • A type of imaginative playing in which children gather with each other or their dolls to mimic having a real tea party or other formal meal, often without any food at all. 

How often have the words meal and tea party occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )