dejeuner

dejeuner (countable and uncountable, plural dejeuners)

1. Alternative form of déjeuner.
   • 1839 February 9, Venables, “[Gleanings.] Domestic Scenes in Russia.”, in The Birmingham Journal, number 714, Birmingham, page 6, column 5:

     After going round the garden we returned to the house, where we found a dejeuner set out in the drawing-room, consisting of caviare, cheese, &c., and, of course, liqueurs.

   • 1887 September 23, Newland Maynard, “The Sights of Gibralter: The Rev. Dr. Maynard on His Travels. A Visit to the Impregnable Fortification on Whose Possession John Bull Prides Himself—The Voyage—Genoa.”, in The Brooklyn Daily Times, Brooklyn, N.Y., page [2], column 3:

     Then at 9:30 we had dejeuner, which means a regular dinner.

   • 1891 May 16, “Weddings”, in The Sydney Mail, volume LI, number 1610, Sydney, N.S.W., page 1087, column 4:

     After the service the wedding party drove to Government House Cottage, the residence of the bride’s parents, where the dejeuner was served, and in the afternoon the happy pair left for Melbourne for their honeymoon, the bride travelling in a dress of navy blue serge with jacket to match, and a blue hat ornamented with “Guards-red” birds.

   • 1895 January 6, Anna Bowman, “Saw the Elephant. Council Bluffs Girl Describes Her Visit to Monte Carlo.”, in Sunday World-Herald, volume XXX, number 98, Omaha, Neb., page 3, column 1:

     Arrived at Monte Carlo we had dejeuner at Hotel des Londres, and at once went through the gardens, to the Casino grounds.

   • 1895 February 2, Mrs. Leonard Treadwell Kendall, “Seen in Switzerland: What an Atlanta Lady Finds to Comment On. From Torquay to Chamounix; Mrs. Leonard Treadwell Kendall Writes from Geneva of Her Experiences Among the Alps’ Sublime Heights.”, in The Atlanta Journal, volume XII, number 286, Atlanta, Ga., page 1, column 2:

     Next morning we started to a small place called a La Cluse, where we had dejeuner, and soon after took front seats on the Diligence that was to rattle along the pass to Chamonix.

   • 1896 September 26, John A. Fisher, “Fisher’s Dining & Refreshment Rooms, Tudor House, Westgate”, in Gloucester Journal. […], volume CLXXIII, number 9081, Gloucester, page 1:

     WEDDING Dejeuners, Ball Suppers, Banquets, Coming of Age, or other celebrations estimated for.

dejeuner (third-person singular simple present dejeuners, present participle dejeunering, simple past and past participle dejeunered)

1. Alternative form of déjeuner.
   • 1855 July 23, E., “Sketches of the Emperor and Empress at Guildhall and the Opera-House”, in The Age, number 237, Melbourne, Vic., page 7, column 6:

     He wants the frankness (now) of manner which alone could carry a man in his position through an hour’s dejeunering with squab citymen who had no notion of what it would be proper to say to him.

   • 1871 February 7, S. J. Capper, “M. Erckmann”, in Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, number 5,563, Newcastle upon Tyne, published 1871 February 25, page 5, column 7:

     As during my stay at Phalsburg I have been dejeunering and dining with the German commandant and officers, the contrast between their mode of thought and that of my French friends is very striking.

   • 1872, William John Leigh Maxwell, Letters of an Engineer While on Service in Syria in Connection with the Proposed Euphrates Valley Railway and the Beyrout Waterworks, London: Marcus Ward & Co., […], published 1886, page 274:

     “Got up—washed—breakfasted—dejeunered—dined—smoked—went to bed.”

   • 1899 April 2, Robert M. Collis, “With All Due Solemnity: How a Duck Is Cooked at the Famous Tour d’Argent. Differs From Other Restaurants—The Chef Has All the Dignity of a High Priest—Latest Fad in Paris.”, in The Macon Telegraph, Macon, Ga., page 5, column 3:

     No epicures were enlisted in the party which dd^[sic] homage tonight to Tour d’Argent duck, only plain Americans, who swore by plain beefsteaks and never met in Paris without questioning one another in an illiterate and scoffing way, “Have you dejeunered?” to show their contempt for the customs of the country.

   • 1903 February 4, “Humourist”, in The Sydney Mail, volume LXXV, number 2222, Sydney, N.S.W., page 278, column 1:

     “Here, waiter,” cried the Johnnie who had dejeunered daringly at 12, “take this bill to the manager and tell him it’s an imposition. Why, you’ve charged more for one poached egg on toast than for an entire portion of those eggs that you scramble.”

   • 1916 September 30, “[By the Way] Sartori’s Inspiration American Not Foreign”, in A. D. Porter, editor, Los Angeles Graphic, volume XLIX, number 14, Los Angeles, Calif., page 5, column 3:

     So many times has J. F. Sartori, the wide-awake president of the Security National Bank, knocked about Europe, bracing himself of a foggy morning on London sole and bacon, dejeunering in elegant Paris, sipping small blacks in Vienna, and dining amid the tapers of Rome or Venice, that I saw, as a matter of fact, the origin of the Security’s artistic clock. the most striking architectural adornment on Spring street: […]

   • 1919 May 29, “Egotism”, in The China Mail, number 17,476, Hong Kong, page 4, column 3:

     Still holding your arm, and rejecting with wild gesticulations your suggestion that a cab might–er–drop you somewhere near the Batignolles, he would hurry you across that thoroughfare, where the chauffeurs are more murderous than they are here, and by uphill streets whose names you never, never could remember, land you panting in the little porch of the Cafe de l’Athene, where you found that wild Irishman P. J. waiting. Here you dejeunered, and listened chiefly to P.J. telling Victor just how much Verlaine was over-rated.

   • 1924 August 11, “The State’s Survey”, in The State, Columbia, S.C., page 4, column 2:

     He offhandedly invited the stodgy Germans to drop into breakfast with Premier Herriot and himself, to talk over matters, a sort of thing the Germans do not understand—breakfasting or dejeunering, we mean.

   • a. 1935, Edward Elgar, edited by Percy M[arshall] Young, Letters of Edward Elgar and Other Writings, London: Geoffrey Bles, published 1956, page 159:

     I dejeunered at 12. Then rest and sleep (much needed).