hors d'oeuvre
(Redirected from hors d’oeuvre)
See also: hors-d'oeuvre and hors-d'œuvre
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French hors-d’œuvre.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɔːˈdɜːv/[1]
Audio (UK) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˌɔɹˈdɝv/[1]
Audio (US) (file)
Noun edit
hors d'oeuvre (plural hors d'oeuvre or hors d'oeuvres)
- (food) A small, light, and usually savory first course in a meal.
- (by extension) Anything of secondary concern; not the primary thing.
- (dated, rare) Something unusual or extraordinary.
Quotations edit
- 1920, G. K. Chesterton, chapter XIII, in The New Jerusalem:
- It seems quaintest of all when, at some Jewish luncheon parties, a tray of hats is actually handed round, and each guest helps himself to a hat as a sort of hors d'oeuvre.
- 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 3, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN, →OCLC:
- On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d’oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold.
Synonyms edit
(food):
Translations edit
appetizer
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anything of secondary concern
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See also edit
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 (Can we date this quote?), “Meaning of “hors d'oeuvre” in the Cambridge English Dictionary”, in Cambridge Dictionary[1], archived from the original on 2017-11-24:
- UK /ˌɔː ˈdɜːv/ US /ˌɔːr ˈdɝːv/
French edit
Etymology edit
Literally, “apart from the work”, in other words, "apart from the main meal"
Noun edit
hors d’oeuvre m (plural hors d’oeuvre)
- Nonstandard spelling of hors d’œuvre.