déjeuné

From French déjeuné.

• IPA^(key): /ˌdeɪʒəˈneɪ/

déjeuné (plural déjeunés)

1. (dated) A lunch.
   • 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):

     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.

• “déjeuné”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /de.ʒœ.ne/

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

1. past participle of déjeuner