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 913380815, (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", 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