déjeuner

American  

[day-zhœ-nay, day-zhuh-nay, day-zhuh-nay] / deɪ ʒœˈneɪ, ˈdeɪ ʒəˌneɪ, ˌdeɪ ʒəˈneɪ /

noun

French.

• déjeuners
  plural

1. lunch; luncheon.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• déjeuners
  plural

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Example Sentences

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déjeuner déjeuners

Finally, back in Paris, she paints an all-female déjeuner sur l’herbe, in which all the picnickers are Ringgold’s family and friends.

From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2022

French Open announces new schedule of matches that will not interfere with le déjeuner or le dîner.

From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2017

This show includes “Nana,” “Le balcon” and “Le déjeuner sur l’herbe,” among other paintings, and examines how the seemingly innocuous gaze of Manet’s subjects signaled a radical turn for art.

From New York Times ● May 20, 2016

As for Le déjeuner sur l'herbe, that riddle of a picnic with its inexplicable nude, exhibit A in any standard version of modernist art, its reception was the very caricature of a Paris scandal.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2011

The old trapper, grumbling his chagrin at being interrupted in his déjeuner, dropped the buffalo-rib; and taking his rifle along with him, commenced ascending the cliff.

From The Yellow Chief by Mayne Reid

This was excellent as a distraction for his mind, but since it occasionally led him into three déjeuners and two dinners, rather bad, we feared, for other parts of him.

From A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') by Sara Jeannette Duncan

I keep to the old hours; I do not care for your English déjeuners at one o'clock.

From Studies in love and in terror by Marie Belloc Lowndes

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