déjeuner

[ dey-zhœ-ney; English dey-zhuh-ney, dey-zhuh-ney ]

noun

, French.

, plural dé·jeu·ners [dey-zh, œ, -, ney, dey, -zh, uh, -neyz, dey-zh, uh, -, neyz].

1. lunch; luncheon.

Example Sentences

They noted that Edouard Manet’s avant-garde painting “Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe” imitated Marcantonio Raimondi’s engraving, “The Judgment of Paris,” which was itself a reference to a work by Raphael.

From Los Angeles Times

Nan Goldin comes to mind before some of his halcyon ’90s pictures, and she herself appears with two nudes in a 1996 Tillmans idyll: a millennial remake of Manet’s “Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe.”

From New York Times

If there's a reason Victorine Meurent is nude in Manet's famed painting "Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe," it may well be because her dress, crumpled amidst the scattered detritus of lunch, was impossible to manage for the duration of the meal.

From Salon

Finally, back in Paris, she paints an all-female déjeuner sur l’herbe, in which all the picnickers are Ringgold’s family and friends.

From New York Times

They all are displayed within view of Édouard Manet’s 1863 painting “Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe,” or “The Luncheon on the Grass,” another of Mr. Saint Laurent’s recurring obsessions.

From New York Times