hors d'oeuvre
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hors d'oeuvre
- /ˌɔːˈdɜːv/ UK
- /ˌɔɹˈdɝv/ US
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Borrowed from French hors-d'œuvre.
noun hors d'oeuvre · hors d'oeuvres · hors-d'oeuvre · hors d'œuvre · hors-d'œuvre
- A small, light, and usually savory first course in a meal.
- Anything preliminary and of secondary concern. His price was five hundred pounds in English or French gold—an interesting phase of your ordinary blackmailer's antipathy to paper—merely an hors d'oeuvre to the solid things to come, of course.
- Something unusual or extraordinary.
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noun appetizer
| Español | aperitivo |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 오르되브르 oreudoebeureu, 전채 jeonchae, 애피타이저 aepitaijeo |
| 日本語 | オードブル ōdoburu, つき出し tsukidashi, 突き出し tsukidashi, 前菜 zensai, アペタイザー apetaizā |
| 中文 | 前菜 qiáncài, 小吃 xiǎochī, 點心 /点心 diǎnxin, 冷盤 /冷盘 lěngpán, 開胃菜 /开胃菜 kāiwèicài |
| Português | aperitivo |
| Français | hors-d'œuvre |
| Deutsch | Hors d’œuvre, Vorspeise |
| Ελληνικά | ορεκτικό orektikó |
| Русский | заку́ска zakúska, переку́ска perekúska, переку́с perekús |
noun anything preliminary and of secondary concern
| 中文 | 次要的事情 cìyào de shìqing |
|---|---|
| Français | rien, gnognotte, broutille, pipi de chat |
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title = {hors d'oeuvre},
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