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déjeuner

American  
[dey-zhœ-ney, dey-zhuh-ney, dey-zhuh-ney] / deɪ ʒœˈneɪ, ˈdeɪ ʒəˌneɪ, ˌdeɪ ʒəˈneɪ /

noun

French.
  • déjeuners
    plural
  1. lunch; luncheon.


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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

Then glancing at the dressing-table, his eyes fell upon the hotel bill, which had come up on the tray with his déjeuner.

From The White Lie by William Le Queux

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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