Meaning of déjeuner | Babel Free

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The French midday meal.

countable, uncountable

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“The déjeuner and the villa fête, the water party and the rambling ride, followed each other with the bright rapidity of the final scenes in a Pantomime.”

“She had a certain price, from which no earthly consideration would induce her to depart; and certain returns for this price in the shape of déjeuners and dinners, baths and beds, which she never failed to give in accordance with the dictates of a strict conscience. These were traits in the character of an hotel-keeper which cannot be praised too highly, and which had met their due reward in the custom of the public.”

“The charges at the Inns along the road are generally, bed 2 fr. [francs], café-au-lait 1 fr., déjeuner and dinner 3 to 4 fr. each.”

“During the summer months the following restaurants offer the advantages of open air gardens and terraces, where déjeuners and dinners are served: […]”

“A friend of mine, who was at a déjeuner given at the Russian Embassy by the Prince Ouroussoff to the Grand Duc and Grande Duchesse Vladimir, told me that some of the toilettes were beautiful.”

““To Chatou,” I said; “we can have déjeuner there and then walk along the avenue beside the river to Croissy and the islands, if yon are not too tired.[…]” […] “I do not wish you to lose them [gloves]; but I know you have very pretty little hands indeed. I noticed them during déjeuner.” […] “Keep some appetite for déjeuner, or you will not be able to touch it.” […] I had not told her about my visit to Briant’s, but when after déjeuner she spoke of sending for a cab so that we might drive to the Paradis, I replied that I had ordered a vehicle, and that it would be at the door at a quarter to two o’clock. […] After a long chat about one thing and another, he kept me to déjeuner, in spite of my protests that I was expected at home. […] Five of us, I think, sat down to déjeuner, served by the official flunkeys.”

“We went to-day to Roulinas to receive the jewels which Romain is to take to the Mont de Piété, and took déjeuner at Marguery’s (the expensive Porte St. Denis restaurant).”

“It may be noted here that, so far as our experience went, the Custom House officials took déjeuner between 12 and 1 o’clock; that, like the servants’ dinner in our country, it was a feast after the order of the laws of the Medes and Persians, which alter not; that generally it may be advisable to time one’s arrival so that a long wait may be avoided, unless there is certainty of getting a satisfactory déjeuner close by; […]”

“Naturally I was not thinking particularly of bags when I entered his house for the first time because the hall was all full of caricatures of celebrated people, and M. Jean Veber’s children were running about here and there, and I was thinking how much, if anything at all, I ought to charge for being English professor to his son—and then Madame Veber invited me to déjeuner and we forgot the money side of the question. […] In a burst of generous enthusiasm while dining the previous night with Blum, the Yankee student—in Establie’s Restarant,^([sic]) the Bohemian one—he offered Blum a seat for the following night, but when we went to Versailles for something next day, took déjeuner under the trees there, and French notes were simply melting into thin air.”

““[…] To-day you will take a holiday, and we will go out in a gondola to one of the lagoons, and have our déjeuner and tea.” […] Here he had déjeuner, his eyes ever busy with the prospect in the valley below him; […]”

“They bribed the waiters to lend them their costumes, and went themselves and served the déjeuner, and did the most atrocious things! It was the laugh of the week in Paris; and afterward the baron forgave them and gave another déjeuner for their benefit.”

“At noon, the President and Mrs. Wilson were the guests of honor at the state déjeuner given by President and Mme. Poincaré at the Elysée Palace. […] It was their first real meeting, for there had been no opportunity to talk at the Dauphine station or at the Elysée Palace déjeuner. […] The President took déjeuner at the Foreign Office with Pichon, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and a number of diplomatic guests.”

“He resumed his former custom of taking his déjeuner in his cabinet, and dined alone in his apartment.”

“He took his departure and went off for déjeuner, at the little Café Pontoise that lies near the Préfecture. […] Yes, they were service flats. M. Gaillard had no personal servants; he generally took déjeuner here and dined out at a café, a gentleman of very regular habits.”

“After twelve Rodin invited me to déjeuner, which was served out of doors; it was very odd. […] Finally, a rather dirty person came, brought a few things (which were well cooked), carried them around and, in a very good-natured way, forced me to help myself when I didn’t want to: he apparently thought me extremely shy. I have hardly ever been present at such a singular déjeuner. […] After lunch she spoke to me in a very friendly manner—only now as housekeeper—, invited me always to have déjeuner whenever I am in Meudon etc. […] After a déjeuner that passed no less uneasily and strangely than the one I last mentioned, I went with Rodin into the garden, and we sat down on a bench which looked out wonderfully far over Paris. […] We again took déjeuner together, and afterward there was a good hour of serious conversation when the others had risen. […] And right here and now let an invitation be extended to you and Anna Jaenecke for a déjeuner I would like to offer you there.”

“She gave a magnificent déjeuner to all the company, the Duc d’Aumale on her right, the Duc d’Orléans on her left. […] Monsieur Badouin, who had brought the news, was surrounded by the Duc, his family, and even the chefs, who appeared in their tall white caps, still holding the utensils with which they were preparing the déjeuner. […] At ten o’clock all took déjeuner together, except Louis Philippe, who was already too occupied to be punctual. […] At the Tuileries, the déjeuner was a jumble of emotions.”

“He took déjeuner with Châtillon; a meal which, as Lord Cockburn carefully explained to the jury, “is neither breakfast nor luncheon, nor what would be exactly interpreted by either of those terms, but is a sort of combination of both”; had dinner with M. d’Aranza, the Abbé Salis and M. Châtillon; said goodbye to Gossein, chance-met in the street; and, on March 1st, 1853 set sail in the French ship La Pauline for Valparaiso. […] He was hurried into the presence without even being allowed time for déjeuner.”

“If Guise is to see Catherine about Avenelle, it will be after the déjeuner. […] The arrangement that she and Nenette had labored on so long after déjeuner was of courtly fashion, a bundle of braided sections mingled with petite curls into a waterfall, which then cascaded down her back and across her left shoulder. […] I thought we could visit during our déjeuner.”

“Placed on a richly chased gold stand was a déjeûner of Sevre china, the cups painted with medallions of the beauties of Louis the Fourteenth’s reign.”

“Each of those oxen is allowed, I should think, a bottle of wine and bread-and-butter at discretion, at their déjeûner and dinner: how else should they be so fat and well-liking?”

“Some persons have found it advantageous, when intending to prolong their stay, to take unfurnished apartments, and hire by the month or quarter from an upholsterer the furniture they require; this is perhaps the most economical plan, and where a cook is not kept, déjeûners and dinners may be ordered from a neighbouring restaurateur.”

“At all these Hotels, or nearly so, there is a table d’hôte at a stated hour for both the déjeûner and dinner, the other repasts being allowed in one’s own apartment.”

“But, chiefly, he is delighted with the orchards which abound in Normandy, and sweeten the air with their healthy smell; for thousands of red apples are still on the trees, though thousands are lying in rich heaps underneath them, and though sixty wagons loaded with the same may be counted at the Bayeux railway station this fine October day. No wonder there is cider everywhere, universal as red wine in the south, and drunk at every table d’hôte both for déjeûner and dinner.”

“I am not a marrying man, and the great Emporium of good matches is of no use to me; so, after concerts and crushes, déjeûners and dinners, the coulisses and the Commons, I was thankful enough when, after having eaten my customary whitebait, I was free to turn my thoughts to the bracken and the mist, the corries and the glens of the dear far-away Western Highlands.”

“At twelve we have déjeûner, consisting of boiled eggs or omelette, cutlets, and potatoes; […]”

“No news of Emile or Blanchard—our young men gone from us; Clémence gone; even the bonne absent; how solitary the house felt! for M. Brunel had shut himself into his apartments, only descending to join us at déjeûner and dinner, and when he went to receive his newspaper.”

“The formal hotel pension takes the place of the genial household, with its elaborate regulation dietary compressed in two meals, déjeûner and dinner, irrespective of individual necessities.”

“Those who come to stay over a month or two invariably abandon the hotels and take to the boarding-houses, where they can live much more comfortably and fare better for half the expense. The charge at these houses ranges from eight to twelve francs per day, including finely-furnished chambers and the use of the parlors, pianos, etc., wine at déjeûner and dinner.”

“At home, and abroad; when they lie down, and before they rise; with chocolate, and at déjeûner, and dinner; on the street, and the Paseo; in the studio, bureau, counting-house, and café; on horseback, or in a carriage; whether idle or busy; it might—without being wide of the truth—be said, whether asleep or awake; tobacco smoke, duly mixed with the required proportion of phosphoretted and sulphuretted gases from matches, is the breath and being of Spanish life, of both sexes.”

“The charges at the Inns along the road are generally, bed 2 f. [francs], café au lait 1 f., déjeûner and dinner 3 to 4 f. each.”

“(t.) 1 fr. [franc] on déjeûner and dinner coupons.”

“We arrived, in short, at the “Great White City,” as it is called; and when the expressions of her delight at the beauty of its cupolas and domes, its dazzling pinnacles and spires against the blue sky beyond, had subsided, my father suggested that, to begin with, as she was bent on British ways, she should come and lunch with us on the terrace of the Grand Restaurant. “Hors d’œuvres! But the menu is French! Oh, you English!” and Mademoiselle, as she plied her knife and fork vigorously in true French fashion, elbows in the air, gave us her mind volubly on the characteristics of our nation. “Humbugs” we were, treating her to an English lunch when here she was partaking of an excellent French déjeûner and dinner in one.”

“Daily, too, she would collect all the bits of bread left after déjeûner and dinner, and put these carefully in her bag, as she said she was often hungry in the night and it was a pity to waste them.”

“For our meals we joined the French officers in the station buffet, where we were excellently fed for 5 francs, which included déjeûner and dinner.”

“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.”

“After going round the garden we returned to the house, where we found a dejeuner set out in the drawing-room, consisting of caviare, cheese, &c., and, of course, liqueurs.”

“Then at 9:30 we had dejeuner, which means a regular dinner.”

“After the service the wedding party drove to Government House Cottage, the residence of the bride’s parents, where the dejeuner was served, and in the afternoon the happy pair left for Melbourne for their honeymoon, the bride travelling in a dress of navy blue serge with jacket to match, and a blue hat ornamented with “Guards-red” birds.”

“Arrived at Monte Carlo we had dejeuner at Hotel des Londres, and at once went through the gardens, to the Casino grounds.”

“Next morning we started to a small place called a La Cluse, where we had dejeuner, and soon after took front seats on the Diligence that was to rattle along the pass to Chamonix.”

“WEDDING Dejeuners, Ball Suppers, Banquets, Coming of Age, or other celebrations estimated for.”

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