luncheoning

Verb

luncheon (third-person singular simple present luncheons, present participle luncheoning, simple past and past participle luncheoned)

1. (dated, intransitive) To eat luncheon.
   • In the meantime, while ladies are luncheoning on chicken pie, or coursing in whirling britskas, performing all the singular ceremonies of a London morning in the heart of the season[…]1844, Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby
2. (rare, transitive) To serve luncheon to.
   • Towns welcomed us in our hundreds; M.P.’s luncheoned us, manufacturers turned out their warehouses, decorated them and feasted us; private families tea’d us on their lawns, but we were so true to our art that we always returned to—“papers!”1896 May 1, H. P. Robinson, “Digressions. V.—The Convention.”, in The British Journal of Photography, volume XLIII, number 1878, London: Henry Greenwood & Co., […], page 277, column 1

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