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déjeuner

  • /dɛʒɜːneɪ/
  • /dɛʒneɪ/

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Borrowed from French déjeuner.

noun déjeuners · déjeûner · dejeuner

  1. countable, uncountable The French midday meal. The déjeuner and the villa fête, the water party and the rambling ride, followed each other with the bright rapidity of the final scenes in a Pantomime.

verb déjeuners · déjeunering · déjeunered · déjeûner · dejeuner

  1. intransitive, rare To have déjeuner. 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,

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"déjeuner." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/d%C3%A9jeuner. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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déjeuner. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/d%C3%A9jeuner

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"déjeuner." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/d%C3%A9jeuner.

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@misc{de_jeuner_2026,
  title = {déjeuner},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/d%C3%A9jeuner},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}