nuncheon (plural nuncheons)

1. (now dialectal, archaic) A drink or light snack taken in the afternoon; a refreshment between meals.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:

     They used to break their fast, and nonchion transterm collation between meals, and all summer-time had men that sold snowe up and down the streets, wherewith they refreshed their wines, of whom some were so daintie that all winter long they used to put snow into their wine, not deeming it cold enough. (I.49)

• French: goûter
• Italian: merenda
• Portuguese: lanche
• Russian: по́лдник
• Spanish: merienda