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Breakfast   /brˈɛkfəst/   Listen
noun
Breakfast  n.  
1.
The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal. "A sorry breakfast for my lord protector."
2.
A meal after fasting, or food in general. "The wolves will get a breakfast by my death."


verb
Breakfast  v. t.  To furnish with breakfast.


Breakfast  v. i.  (past & past part. breakfasted; pres. part. breakfasting)  To break one's fast in the morning; too eat the first meal in the day. "First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast."





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"Breakfast" Quotes from Famous Books



... would enable me, in the course of three hours, to get between Johnston and the Shenandoah River, and effectually bar his way to Manassas. I had my ammunition all distributed, and ordered my men to have 24 hours' rations in their haversacks, independent of their breakfast. We were to march at 4 o'clock the next morning. I had this road to the Opequan completed that night. I had then with me, in addition to my eight regiments amounting to about 8,000 men and a few cavalry, Doubleday's heavy United States battery of 20 and 30 pounders, and ...
— The Great Conspiracy, Complete • John Alexander Logan
... has heard a word of him since!" she remarked one day as they sat at breakfast. "I'm quite certain he's done something wrong. I've never liked ...
— Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo • William Le Queux
... 1444, just four years before Villon joined the University, it seems to have been taken as the average wage for a day's manual labour.[8] In short, it cannot have been a very profuse allowance to keep a sharp-set lad in breakfast and supper for seven mortal days; and Villon's share of the cakes and pastry and general good cheer, to which he is never weary of referring, must have been ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... no comment, but proceeded to undergo the labours of the toilet. A cold bath is an excellent tonic; and when Leroy entered the dining-room his calm face bore no traces of his comparatively sleepless night. He sat down to breakfast, waited on by the attentive Norgate, and turned over the heap of letters which lay beside his plate. During his leisured meal he opened them. They were principally invitations, though a few of them were bills—big sums, many of them, for horses, ...
— Adrien Leroy • Charles Garvice
... The breakfast was another sight to behold. As Mary the cook said to Jane the housemaid, "If they'd been born kings and queens, Mrs. Lee couldn't have laid herself out more; it's grand, so it is,—just you go and see;" which Jane proceeded to do, and forthwith ...
— What Answer? • Anna E. Dickinson


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