| 单词 | breakfast à la fourchette | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasbreakfast à la fourchette   Chiefly as postmodifier. Eaten with a fork, indicating a meal of such substance and content as to require simple cutlery. Frequently in  breakfast à la fourchette: a hearty breakfast typically eaten late morning or at lunchtime. Cf. déjeuner à la fourchette at déjeuner n. a, fork-breakfast n. at fork n. Compounds 2a.Usually in European contexts.In quot. ?c1823   implying a meal of an informal nature. ΚΠ 1803    F. W. Blagdon Paris as it Was I. ix. 74  				I am no advocate for all the accessories of a French déjeûner à la fourchette.]			 1817    Q. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts July 343  				They rise early, go constantly to church, return home at nine, when breakfast à la fourchette is served. ?c1823    D. Wordsworth Jrnl. 2nd Tour Scotl. in  Jrnls. 		(1941)	 II. 353  				Sheltered in the Cabin, and took a breakfast a la fourchette—not at the gentry end. 1853    Putnam's Monthly Mar. 292/1  				Breakfast is almost as important a meal with the Habanero, as dinner. It is hearty: decidedly à la fourchette. 1875    W. H. Watts Our Fräulein I. vi. 49  				At eleven the à la fourchette breakfast was served, Mütter Rond being permitted to display her culinary capabilities. 1912    J. Ayscough Saints & Places viii. 413  				Our meals on board followed Italian custom..and consisted of a long breakfast à la fourchette at 9.30 (11.30 on that first day) and dinner at 6. 2011    K. Kostecka M. W. Travers ii. 14  				Continuous refreshments and champagne throughout the day with supper a la fourchette. < as lemmas | 
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