Though brunch is thought of as an American tradition, H. L. Mencken tells us that it was popular in England around 1900, long before it ever came to the States. In fact, the first known reference to the term appeared in an 1896 edition of Punch, To be fashionable nowadays we must ‘brunch’. Truly an excellent portmanteau word, introduced, by the way, last year, by Mr. Guy Beringer, in the now defunct Hunter's Weekly, and indicating a combined breakfast and lunch.
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In case you were wondering what portmanteau means..from the Oxford English Dictionary....In the sense of ‘that into which things are packed together’; originally applied by ‘L. Carroll’ to a factitious word made up of the blended sounds of two distinct words and combining the meanings of both; hence used attrib., and subseq. extended to things that are or suggest a combination of two different things of the same kind.
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The Blackthorne Inn
10087 John S. Mosby Highway
Upperville, Virginia 20184-1742