Significados de little collation em inglês

We carried to Champeaux a little collation, which we ate with a keen appetite.

The inspection concluded, they all assembled in the salon on the ground floor, where Madame Polge had prepared a little collation.

He was very earnest with me to give him, and four of his friends, my company on Monday evening, at a little collation.

She had taken care to get me a little collation, which looked delicious, but which I could not touch, my appetite lying in another quarter.

Or, to change the figure, I will present my varied little collation (what is our Country itself but an infinitely vast and varied collation?)