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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 277 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DINNER , the See also:

chief See also:meal of the See also:day, eaten either in the See also:middle of the day, as was formerly the universal See also:custom, or in the evening. The word " dine " comes through Fr. from Med. See also:Lat. disnare, for disjejunare, to break one's fast (jejunium); it is, therefore, the same word as Fr. dejeuner, to breakfast, in See also:modern See also:France, to take the midday meal, diner being used for the later repast. The See also:term " dinner-See also:wagon," originally a movable table to hold dishes, is now used of a two-tier See also:side-See also:board.

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