déjeuné

See also: déjeune, déjeûné, and déjeûne

English

Etymology

From French déjeuné.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˌdeɪʒəˈneɪ/

Noun

déjeuné (plural déjeunés)

  1. (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, (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”, in 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.

References
  • déjeuné in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /de.ʒœ.ne/
  • Audio(file)

Participle

déjeuné (feminine déjeunée, masculine plural déjeunés, feminine plural déjeunées)

  1. past participle of déjeuner
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.