déjeuné

See also: déjeune, déjeûné, and déjeûne

English

Etymology

From French déjeuné.

Noun

déjeuné (plural déjeunés)

  1. (dated) A lunch.
    • Ben Jonson
      Take a déjeuné of muskadel and eggs.
    • Maria Edgeworth, Almeria
      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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for déjeuné in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

French

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

Verb

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

  1. past participle of déjeuner
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