déjeuner
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: déjeuners
form: déjeunering
form: déjeunered
form: déjeunered
form: déjeûner
form: dejeuner
Etymology: From French déjeuner.
Senses: examples: text: I passed stacks of iron ore, piles of rails; heard of lots of forges to the right and left; swept over the Adour at Dax in view of its castle and great church; past Orthez with its immense town of Moncade (little dreaming of the Joys in store for me at its foot), where Gaston Phœbus, Count of Foix, carried his lovely mistress and murdered his own son, and died himself; up the lovely Gare de Pau, and was met at the railroad depot by old Father Bost, to whom I had sent a flying telegram from Monceaux where I déjeunered.
ref: 1863 November 21, Peter Lesley, edited by Mary Lesley Ames, Life and Letters of Peter and Susan Lesley, volume I, New York, N.Y.; London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons; The Knickerbocker Press, published 1909, page 461:
text: I lived like a fighting cock, smoked like a Turk, and drank (coffee) like a fish; I had dined and “déjeunered”; I saw everything and everybody on my route.
ref: 1893 October 21, J. Rowley, “On a Bicycle through Normandy. With the French Army. (Conclusion.)”, in The Liverpool Echo, number 4,354, Liverpool, page 3, column 7:
text: We lunched or dejeûnered with French Admiral also on Monday & M. Chapleau made a most charming & graceful speech in responding, bringing in many allusions to the Admiral’s Chinese experiences at the time of the French war under Admiral Courbet, whose body he afterwards brought back.
ref: 1894 September 19, Lady Aberdeen [i.e., Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair], The Canadian Journal of Lady Aberdeen, 1893-1898 (The Publications of the Champlain Society; XXXVIII), Toronto, Ont.: The Champlain Society, published 1960, page 121:
text: Well, havin’ “déjeunered,” we set off i’ scramblin fashun to view Chatsworth—abeaut a mile or mooar—under a broilin sun, an’ streeamin’ o’ prespiration, an’ which yoar beaund to reitch befoor a quarter to one o’clock or else yoa connot get through that day.
ref: 1899, Robert Dottie, The Rambles and Recollections of “R’Dick”, Manchester: Albert Sutton, […], page 169:
text: “Will mademoiselle remain here till I return to the Mont Blanc and find the key which without doubt remains over there, upon the table where we déjeunered?”
ref: 1909, E[dith] Nesbit, Daphne in Fitzroy Street, Toronto, Ont.: The Musson Book Company, Limited, page 174:
text: By noon the fat, perspiring, and importantly busy merchant arrives, overweighted with red blood, fat, and responsibility, for a game of manille or dominoes with three or four old cronies. They déjeuner together; and you may be sure they eat heartily.
ref: 1916, F[rank] Berkeley Smith, Babette: A Novel, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 240:
text: He told Ethel Sands, with typical exaggeration, ‘Asselin remains, I might say, my only friend. He is in the country but now & again comes up & we déjeuner with a bottle of white wine at the eighteenpenny French place.[…]’
ref: 2005, Matthew Sturgis, Walter Sickert: A Life, London: Harper Perennial, →ISBN, page 480:
glosses: To have déjeuner.