déjeuner
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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
Here he wrote, tirelessly, tremendously, as his custom was: beginning betimes in the early morning, and writing on till the time for his déjeuner: standing at a tall desk to write in his sea-tower.
From Toilers of the Sea by Hugo, Victor
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