déjeûner

plural déjeûners

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of déjeuner.

   Placed on a richly chased gold stand was a déjeûner of Sevre china, the cups painted with medallions of the beauties of Louis the Fourteenth’s reign.

   [1832], L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Talisman”, in Heath’s Book of Beauty. M.DCCC.XXXIII. […], London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, […] [for Charles Heath], →OCLC, page 74

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   Each of those oxen is allowed, I should think, a bottle of wine and bread-and-butter at discretion, at their déjeûner and dinner: how else should they be so fat and well-liking?

   1855 October 13, “A Dash through the Vines”, in Charles Dickens, editor, Household Words. […], volume XII, number 290, London: Office, […], published 1856, page 241, column 1

   Some persons have found it advantageous, when intending to prolong their stay, to take unfurnished apartments, and hire by the month or quarter from an upholsterer the furniture they require; this is perhaps the most economical plan, and where a cook is not kept, déjeûners and dinners may be ordered from a neighbouring restaurateur.

   1859, Thomas Forester, editor, Paris and Its Environs. An Illustrated Handbook., London: Henry G[eorge] Bohn, […], page 368

   At all these Hotels, or nearly so, there is a table d’hôte at a stated hour for both the déjeûner and dinner, the other repasts being allowed in one’s own apartment.

   1859, [Augustus Granville], The Mineral Springs of Vichy: A Sketch of Their Chemical and Physical Characters, and of Their Efficacy in the Treatment of Various Diseases. […], London: John Churchill, […], page 224

   But, chiefly, he is delighted with the orchards which abound in Normandy, and sweeten the air with their healthy smell; for thousands of red apples are still on the trees, though thousands are lying in rich heaps underneath them, and though sixty wagons loaded with the same may be counted at the Bayeux railway station this fine October day. No wonder there is cider everywhere, universal as red wine in the south, and drunk at every table d’hôte both for déjeûner and dinner.

   1859 December 10, “Cherbourg”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round. […], volume II, number 33, London: […], published 1860, page 149, column 2

   I am not a marrying man, and the great Emporium of good matches is of no use to me; so, after concerts and crushes, déjeûners and dinners, the coulisses and the Commons, I was thankful enough when, after having eaten my customary whitebait, I was free to turn my thoughts to the bracken and the mist, the corries and the glens of the dear far-away Western Highlands.

   1860, Ouida [pseudonym; Maria Louise Ramé], “Belles and Blackcock; or, How a Little Candle on the Moors Lighted Dyneley to His Destiny”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume XLVII, London: Richard Bentley, […], page 179

present singular third person déjeûners · participle present déjeûnering · participle past déjeûnered · past déjeûnered

1. alternativeAlternative form of déjeuner.

   Now then coffee and cigar. This, I explain to Chilvern is the real delight of déjeûnering abroad in any café—you can always smoke immediately.

   1869 December 11, [Francis Cowley Burnand], “More Happy Thoughts”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume LVII, London: […] Bradbury, Evans, and Co., […], page 235, column 2

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   The “Hôtel des Haricots,” so called because the recalcitrant members of the National Guard who were imprisoned there had to déjeûner and dine upon haricots, has been levelled to the ground, in imitation of the Bastille; […]

   1867, “The French Almanacks for 1868. The Year of the Great Exposition.”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume LXII, London: Chapman and Hall, […], page 608

   To culinary connoisseurs there are just two places on the Continong that may rival each other in a reputation for cuisine, […] Mr. Punch’s special traveller in the Déjeûnering business always likes to do a good turn to all who deserve to benefit by a brief holiday, […]

   1897 July 31, “There and Back with a Card”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume CXIII, London: […] Bradbury, Agnew & Co. Ld., […], page 41, column 1

   At Fontes Villa, a little town built on piles, at present the railway headquarters, we déjeûnered with the manager of the line in a beautifully green verandah.

   1900, R[obert] S[tephenson] S[myth] Baden-Powell, The Matabele Campaign, 1896: Being a Narrative of the Campaign in Suppressing the Native Rising in Matabeleland and Mashonaland, London: Methuen & Co. […], page 141