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Example sentences for "dejeuner"

Lexicographically close words:
dejecta; dejected; dejectedly; dejection; dejects; dek; deka; del; dela; delaie
  1. He went late and found that the majority of members had finished dejeuner and were taking coffee in one or other of the smoking-rooms.

  2. And, as often as not, the chance acquaintance of an inn dejeuner would catch the phrase and repeat it thoughtfully.

  3. My mother, you know, has what she calls a dejeuner tomorrow,--dejeuner and dance.

  4. And how often had he had to content himself with a cup of chocolate and a roll for dejeuner in order to pay the necessary five-and-twenty francs to the superintendent!

  5. Deeming this a favourable opportunity, I proposed giving a dejeuner in the Malakhoff two days after its capture, and cooking it with my magic bivouac-stove.

  6. A grand dejeuner is to be given to-morrow in honour of General Luders' visit.

  7. Nevertheless, no one could believe it; so I proposed returning my money to the stakeholder till the next morning, and turning the champagne into an early dejeuner a la fourchette.

  8. The fashionable women make elaborate toilettes for dejeuner at cafe or club or villa, and after the dejeuner they pour out upon the terraces, arrayed in their most ravishing costumes.

  9. When dejeuner is ended there are many ways of passing what is left of the day.

  10. He had the habit of a regular life so ingrained in him that he would not hear of dejeuner before noon.

  11. Longuet that it would be wise to have our dejeuner at once.

  12. Yesterday I was present at a dejeuner on board the James Barnes, on occasion of her coming under the British flag, having been built for the Messrs.

  13. On Saturday I was present at a dejeuner on board the Donald McKay; the principal guest being Mr. Layard, M.

  14. He was persuaded to abandon this unsuitable habit and to eat nothing till half-past ten, when his adviser prescribed a well-cooked little dejeuner a la fourchette, accompanied by half a bottle of sound Bordeaux.

  15. Yet, in spite of the double mischance thus attending the beginning of the dejeuner sur l'herbe, all turns out pleasantly enough.

  16. This painting has suggested several designs to modern artists, the most notable being Manet's Dejeuner sur l'Herbe, where a couple of nude women with two men dressed in modern clothes are shown in a picnic on the grass.

  17. Manet sent Le Bain, which, through the insistence of the public, has come to be called Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe.

  18. The limitations and achievements of Manet are summed up in his painting, Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe.

  19. These many and varied textures are reunited in his Le Dejeuner--a canvas which must not be confused with Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe.

  20. Monet at the early date of 1866 had painted a picture as daring in its naive brutality of out-of-door illumination as the "Dejeuner sur l'herbe.

  21. Watteau, was the order of the day as well as of the night there, for the dejeuner dansant was a frequent feature of the entertainment.

  22. In France they give you these salads to perfection at the dejeuner a la fourchette.

  23. This is of course the mid-day dejeuner a la fourchette.

  24. He comes to know whether the dejeuner a la fourchette is to be served in the boudoir or in the banqueting-hall.

  25. Here every thing gave evidence that the dejeuner was to be a rare one.

  26. I dare say," said he, "we shall have a very capital dejeuner to-day.

  27. The first time we were asked to breakfast at his house, the Altenburg, we were shown into the garden, where in a salon formed by the overarching trees dejeuner was sent out.

  28. The following forenoon the prince invited us to a dejeuner a la fourchette at his 'hermitage,' as he liked to call it.

  29. We stopped for our dejeuner a la fourchette at a little old town called San Quirico, which we entered through a ruined gateway, the town being entirely surrounded by its ancient wall.

  30. As we drove into the town we noticed a Gothic church with two doors of peculiar architecture, and while our dejeuner was being prepared we went to see it.

  31. When they had had dejeuner and were strolling through the Palais Royal, he alluded for the first time to their parting at Ivingdon more than a year ago.

  32. You must have your dejeuner here, with unsophistication twenty-five strong--and Miss Smithson.

  33. To-morrow is the first day of the season, and all the world and his wife will be there to a grand dejeuner a la Fourchette.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dejeuner" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.