couvert
See also: Couvert
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
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.
- 1941, Federal Writers' Project, Los Angeles: A Guide to the City and Its Environs
AnagramsEdit
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French couvert, from Middle French couvert.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
couvert n (plural couverts)
SynonymsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French covert, from Latin coopertus.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
couvert (feminine couverte, masculine plural couverts, feminine plural couvertes)
NounEdit
couvert m (plural couverts)
- Set of cutlery, place setting
- covering, shelter
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
ParticipleEdit
couvert (feminine couverte, masculine plural couverts, feminine plural couvertes)
Further readingEdit
- “couvert”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.