couvert
See also: Couvert
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
couvert (plural couverts)
- cover charge
- 1941, Federal Writers' Project, Los Angeles: A Guide to the City and Its Environs:
- Earl Carroll's Theater-Restaurant, 6230 Sunset Blvd. Dinner from 7:30 to 11 p.m., no couvert; without dinner, admission charge.
- 1965, The Spectator:
- […] the habit of hotel restaurants charging a couvert to residents, and of clubs charging table money to their own members.
- 2010, Karen Torme Olson, Frommer's Croatia:
- The couvert is a “cover charge” that is a prima facie charge for bread, which is brought to the table automatically in most places.
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from French couvert, from Middle French couvert.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
couvert n (plural couverts)
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French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French covert, from Latin coopertus.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
couvert (feminine couverte, masculine plural couverts, feminine plural couvertes)
Noun edit
couvert m (plural couverts)
- Set of cutlery, place setting
- covering, shelter
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Descendants edit
Participle edit
couvert (feminine couverte, masculine plural couverts, feminine plural couvertes)
Further reading edit
- “couvert”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.