Dejeuner

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of déjeuner. alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable

    "On a sudden, it seemed that a thousand bugles broke the blue air, and they were summoned to a dejeuner in four crimson tents, worthy of Sardanapalus."

  2. 2
    a midday meal wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    Alternative form of déjeuner. alt-of, alternative

    "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."

Synonyms

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lunchlunchluncheontiffin

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"On a sudden, it seemed that a thousand bugles broke the blue air, and they were summoned to a dejeuner in four crimson tents, worthy of Sardanapalus."

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