Definition of breakfest

(Christopher Davis, First Family....)

He rose late and went_down in his bathrobe and slippers to have breakfast either alone or with Rachel .

(Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)

He and Irvin_Moll were sipping coffee at the breakfast bar .

(William Maxwell, The Chateau....)

In their search for what turned_out to be the right breakfast china but the wrong table silver , they opened every cupboard door in the kitchen and pantry .

(John Dos Passos, Midcentury....)

First thing I knew he was in the kitchenette cooking_up the breakfast and I was handing Eileen her coffee-cup and she was lying there handsome as a queen among her courtiers .

(John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)

Planes made her feel faint , and in Tokyo , where she had gone that summer , she had been given raw fish for breakfast and so she had come straight home .