petit déjeuner
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We alighted at the hotel and ordered our three rooms; coffee and roll to be taken up to madame; we men would eat our petit déjeuner downstairs.
From Jaffery by Locke, William John
"If I skip afternoon tea, and dinner, and supper, and petit déjeuner, and have two breakfasts running," he exclaimed brightly, "I shall begin fair again."
From Septimus by Locke, William John
She had eaten nothing since the petit déjeuner of the morning, and she was faint with hunger.
From The Magician by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
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