a formal lunch or a formal word for lunch 午餐,午宴(正式的午餐或正式用语) a charity luncheon 慈善午餐会 Luncheon will be served at one, Madam. 夫人,午餐在一点钟开始。 They met at a literary luncheon. 他们在一次文学交流午宴上相识。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- buffet
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Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘thick piece, hunk’): possibly an extension of obsolete lunch ‘thick piece, hunk’, from Spanish lonja ‘slice’.