déjeuner

noun

dé·​jeu·​ner

¦dāzhə¦nā,

F dāzhœnā

plural -s

1

: breakfast or lunch

2

: a service for serving individual breakfasts on a tray

Word History

Etymology

French, from Middle French desjeuner, from desjeuner to breakfast, from Old French, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin disjejunare to break one's fast

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