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English
Etymology
From French déjeuné.
Pronunciation
Noun
déjeuné (plural déjeunés)
- (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.
References
French
Pronunciation
Participle
déjeuné (feminine déjeunée, masculine plural déjeunés, feminine plural déjeunées)
- past participle of déjeuner