vbl. sb. [f. as prec. + -ING1.] The taking of breakfast. Also attrib., as in breakfasting-house, -place, -time.
1732. De Foe, etc., Tour Gt. Brit. (1769), II. 172. Now turned into a Breakfasting-House.
1741. Richardson, Pamela, II. 177. We have made but sorry Breakfastings.
a. 1771. Smollett, Humph. Cl. (1815), 68. Yesterday … she went by herself to a breakfasting in one of the rooms.
