déjeuné
See also: déjeune, déjeûné, and déjeûne
English
Etymology
From French déjeuné.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌdeɪʒəˈneɪ/
Noun
déjeuné (plural déjeunés)
- (dated) A lunch.
- 1629 (first performance), B[en] Jonson, The Nevv Inne. Or, The Light Heart. […], London: […] Thomas Harper, for Thomas Alchorne, […], published 1631, OCLC 913380815, (please specify the page, or act number in uppercase Roman numerals), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- Take a déjeuné of muskadel and eggs.
- 1809, Maria Edgeworth, "Almeria", Tales of Fashionable Life
- 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.
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References
- déjeuné in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.ʒœ.ne/
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Participle
déjeuné (feminine déjeunée, masculine plural déjeunés, feminine plural déjeunées)
- past participle of déjeuner