Crossword clues for luncheon
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Luncheon \Lunch"eon\, n. [Prov. E. luncheon, lunchion, lunshin, a large lump of food, fr. lunch. See Lunch.]
A lump of food. [Prov. Eng.]
A portion of food taken at any time except at a regular meal. [obsolescnet]
A lunch, especially one organized by a group as a formal social gathering.
Luncheon \Lunch"eon\, v. i.
To take luncheon.
--Beaconsfield.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"light repast between mealtimes," 1650s (lunching; spelling luncheon by 1706); earlier "thick piece, hunk," 1570s (luncheon), of uncertain origin. Perhaps northern English dialectal lunch "hunk of bread or cheese" (1580s; probably from Spanish lonja "a slice," literally "loin"), blended with or influenced by nuncheon (Middle English nonechenche, mid-14c.) "light mid-day meal," from none "noon" (see noon) + schench "drink," from Old English scenc, from scencan "pour out." \n
\nDespite the form lunching in the 1650s source OED discounts that it possibly could be from lunch (v.), which is much later. It suggests perhaps an analogy with truncheon, etc. Especially in reference to an early afternoon meal eaten by those who have a noontime dinner.
Wiktionary
n. A formal meal served in the middle of the day. vb. (context intransitive dated English) To eat luncheon.
WordNet
Usage examples of "luncheon".
So he and the Armorer, despite their worry, anxiety and anger, tucked into the luncheon in the private room of the stern-wheeler.
Sterling had told Saint Just were workshops for the conference attendees had begun in earnest after luncheon, so that the hallways on the conference floor were alternately deserted or crowded with women going here, coming from there.
The fat man, moved by pity, rowed the boat back, and, as soon as Patissot had recovered from his seasickness, they bethought themselves of luncheon.
And the three men whom he joined for luncheon in the highly respectable Café Racine are the terrorists.
Laura sat across the luncheon table from Iris in the lofty ceilinged Sane de Cathay of the St.
Harold had, with commendable forethought, brought with her a big box of crullers, in nowise disturbed by the thought that it might spoil their appetites for the delayed luncheon.
My hostess and I had made our shrewd business agreement on the basis of a simple cold luncheon at noon, and liberal restitution in the matter of hot suppers, to provide for which the lodger might sometimes be seen hurrying down the road, late in the day, with cunner line in hand.
Dame so after luncheon they set off on foot, a fiacre being virtually unobtainable.
Here he encountered an April hailstorm, and had to shelter in a hagg, where he ate his luncheon with intense relish.
I guarantee Kem will have Higgins on his knees in the shrubbery by luncheon.
One day after luncheon I poured myself out a glass of kvass, and then dropped the decanter, and so stained the tablecloth.
Nightlily was dazzled to be taken to luncheon at the Court of the Fountain, the closest thing to a high-class restaurant Mos Eisley boasted.
Desdemona nibbled anxiously on her lower lip as she hit the enter key to store the latest version of a luncheon menu featuring spinach and feta cheese in phyllo pastry.
Pett about the difference between picric acid and trinitrotoluene, than which a pleasanter topic for the luncheon table could hardly be selected, and the voice of Clarence Renshaw rose above all other competing noises, as he spoke of the functions of the trochaic spondee.
She and Fitzroy had also been asked to the official luncheon, and were only waiting for the first race to be run before joining the select band for the viceregal table.