breakfastmate

plural breakfastmates

1. rareRare form of breakfast-mate.

   Over night from chaperon of a nasty tempered cavalry horse to breakfastmate of the colonel of the regiment, is Sergeant Bill Gray’s record in “Twenty-three and a Half Hours’ Leave.”

   1919 November 14, “The Screen”, in The Evening Nonpareil, volume XIV, number 167, Council Bluffs, Ia., page 8, column 3

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   Having already sensed his discomfort, I withdrew the question and aimed my queries at the more “thought-rich” ground of governance. Bull’s-eye! Here was something my breakfast interviewee could sink his teeth into. For the next 45 minutes, I was regaled with a litany of board reform measures the partner had personally crafted for CEOS (his esteemed clients) from a variety of Fortune 100 companies. From his point of view — I gathered — compliance, or “data gathering,” was something of a lesser calling. / My breakfastmate is not alone. Smitten by the idea of giving birth to the next Big Idea, certain consulting firms have thumbed their noses at compliance opportunities.

   2004, Consulting Magazine, volume 6, page 6

   We three men naturally sought one another out on the back terrace and then ate dinner together at one of the smaller satellite tables, where we were joined by Sophie and Don, my two breakfastmates, and the ancient painter, named Janet, who appeared to be locating her food perfectly well, further mystifying me as to the nature of legal blindness.

   2004, Jonathan Ames, Wake Up, Sir! A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN

   FORMER PRESIDENT Bill Clinton needs CIA agent Jack Bauer. Stumping in Iowa for wife Hillary, the former prez told breakfastmates that he prayed the writers strike ends soon, adding: “How will we know what the bad guys are up to if there’s no 24?”

   2008 January 4, George Rush, Joanna Rush Molloy, “Harvey to George: Let’s step outside”, in The Palm Beach Post, volume 99, number 243, West Palm Beach, Fla., page 2E, column 1