Meanings
noundéjeuné (plural déjeunés)
plural déjeunés
- datedA lunch.
Take a déjeuné of muskadel and eggs.
1629 (first performance), B[en] Jonson, The New Inne. Or, The Light Heart. […], London: […] Thomas Harper, for Thomas Alchorne, […], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)1 more example
We forbear to describe, or even to enumerate, the variety of balls, suppers, dinners, déjeunés, galas, and masquerades, which Miss Turnbull gave to the fashionable world during this winter.
1809, Maria Edgeworth, “Almeria”, in Tales of Fashionable Life
Origin
- Frenchdéjeuné
- Englishdéjeuné
From French déjeuné.
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