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单词 déjeuné
释义 déjeuner, déjeuné|deʒœne|
[mod.F. déjeuner, formerly often déjeuné (cf. couchee), pres. inf. = to breakfast, used subst. = breaking fast, breakfast.]
a. The morning meal; breakfast.
In France, it often corresponds in time more to the English luncheon, for which déjeuner is consequently used as a synonym. déjeuner à la fourchette [lit. breakfast with the fork], a late déjeuner of a substantial character, with meat, wine, etc.; a luncheon.
1787Maty tr. Riesbeck's Trav. Germ. xxxi. II. 47 Every body now gives dinès, soupès, and dejunès.1818Moore Fudge Fam. Paris i. 8 This exceeding long letter You owe to a déjeuner à la fourchette.1826J. R. Best Four Years in France 289 We took our déjuné at which we had delicious grapes and execrable wine.1849Thackeray Pendennis vii, At her déjeuner-dansant after the Bohemian Ball.1864Daily Tel. 31 May, At the tables on which that description of banquet usually called a déjeûner is spread.
b. A breakfast service (see quot. 1875).
1774Descr. of Villa of H. Walpole 105 A dejuné [ed. 1784, p. 74: dejeuné] of Seve china.1869Lady C. Schreiber Jrnl. (1911) I. 31 A very fine Chelsea Déjeuner which he sold for {pstlg}90.1875E. Meteyard Wedgwood Handbk. 395 A déjeuner consists of a tray, one or more cups and saucers, occasionally a teapot, a cream jug, and a slop basin.
c. attrib.
1851Illustr. Catal. Gt. Exhib. iii. 726/1 Communion and déjeûne services.Ibid. 748/2 Papier maché ‘standish’, ‘déjeûner tray’, and bottle-stand.1865‘Ouida’ Strathmore xii, In the breakfast-room every déjeûner delicacy was waiting.1870Lady C. Schreiber Jrnl. (1911) I. 65 A Sèvres déjeuner service.1875J. Grant One of Six Hundr. x, A déjeûner service of splendid Wedgwood ware.1899Westm. Gaz. 5 July 1/3 Messrs. Christie sold yesterday the déjeuner-service of Napoleon I.
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