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lunch·eon

n) KEY

NOUN:

A lunch, especially a formal one.
An afternoon party at which a light meal is served.

ETYMOLOGY:
Probably alteration (influenced by dialectal lunch, hunk of cheese or bread), of obsolete nuncheon, light snack from Middle English nonshench : none, noon ; see noon + schench, drink (from Old English scenc, from scencan, to pour out)

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