déjeunerdéjeunén.
/ˈdeɪʒəneɪ/ a. The morning meal; breakfast. In France, it often corresponds in time more to the English luncheon, for which déjeuner is consequently used as a synonym. déjeuner à la fourchette [lit. breakfast with the fork] , a late déjeuner of a substantial character, with meat, wine, etc.; a luncheon.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > breakfast or morning meal
forme-metea1175
breakfast1463
disjune1491
jentation1599
jenticulation1658
meat breakfast1728
English breakfast1773
déjeuner1787
dejeune1788
fork-breakfast1812
tea-breakfast1825
cooked breakfast1848
chota hazri1863
hunt-breakfast1877
petit déjeuner1879
brekker1889
brekkie1904
Continental breakfast1911
prayer breakfast1930
Oslo breakfast1937
fry1959
1787 P. H. Maty tr. J. K. Riesbeck Trav. Germany II. xxxi. 47 Every body now gives dinès, soupès, and dejunès.
1818 T. Moore Fudge Family in Paris i. 8 This exceeding long letter You owe to a déjeuner à la fourchette.
1826 H. D. Best Four Years France 289 We took our déjuné at which we had delicious grapes and execrable wine.
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. vii. 71 At her déjeunér dansant after the Bohemian Ball.
1864 Daily Tel. 31 May At the tables on which that description of banquet usually called a déjeûner is spread.
b. A breakfast service (see quot. 1875).
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the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > crockery > breakfast crockery
déjeuner1774
breakfast-china1811
breakfast-seta1817
breakfast-service1838
breakfast-things1841
1774 H. Walpole Descr. Villa Strawberry-Hill 105 A dejuné of Seve china.
1869 C. Schreiber Jrnl. (1911) I. 31 A very fine Chelsea Déjeuner which he sold for £90.
1875 E. Meteyard Wedgwood Handbk. 395 A déjeuner consists of a tray, one or more cups and saucers, occasionally a teapot, a cream jug, and a slop basin.
c. attributive.
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1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 726/1 Communion and déjeûne services.
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 748/2 Papier maché ‘standish’, ‘déjeûner tray’, and bottle-stand.
1865 ‘Ouida’ Strathmore I. xii. 183 In the breakfast-room every déjeûner delicacy was waiting.
1870 C. Schreiber Jrnl. (1911) I. 65 A Sèvres déjeuner service.
1875 J. Grant One of Six Hundred x A déjeûner service of splendid Wedgwood ware.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 5 July 1/3 Messrs. Christie sold yesterday the déjeuner-service of Napoleon I.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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