[f. LUNCH sb.2]

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  1.  intr. To take lunch.

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1823.  D’Israeli, Cur. Lit., Ser. II. I. 402. She is now old enough, she said, to have lived to hear the vulgarisms of her youth adopted in drawing-room circles. To lunch, now so familiar from the fairest lips, in her youth was only known in the servants hall.

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1884.  Grant Allen, Philistia, II. 101. Miss Merivale lunched with the family.

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1887.  J. Ashby-Sterry, Lazy Minstrel (1892), 190. Here can we lunch to the music of trees.

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1897.  Ld. Tennyson, Mem. Tennyson, II. 222. On one occasion Ruskin lunched with us.

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  2.  trans. To provide lunch for. colloq.

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1892.  Temple Bar, Dec., 578. [She] does her duty … warmly by her country friends—lunching, tea-ing, and dining them.

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1893.  Westm. Gaz., 15, June, 3/1. Permission was given to lunch the pilgrims on board the Victory.

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