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noun

Hors d'oeuvre n. (pl. hors d'oeuveres)

Something unusual or extraordinary. (R.)

A dish served as a relish, usually at the beginning of a meal.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hors d'oeuvre" Quotes from Famous Books

... that whereas the habitues contented themselves with an omelette aux champignons, saute potatoes and a Petit Suisse, or the like modest menu, Betty's new friend ordered for himself, and for her, "a real regular dinner," beginning with hors d'oeuvre and ending with "mendiants." "Mendiants" are raisins and nuts, the nearest to dessert that at this season you could get at Garniers. Also he passed over with smiling disrelish the little carafons ...

— The Incomplete Amorist • E. Nesbit

... masters of the art of letter writing were Cicero and Voltaire,"[5] there is a decided flavor of the nineteenth century in Cicero's words to a good liver whom he is going to visit. "You must not reckon," he wrote, "on my eating your hors d'oeuvre. I have given them up entirely. The time has gone by when I can abuse my stomach with your olives and ...

— Historical Essays • James Ford Rhodes

... and champagne was served with the hors d'oeuvre. Peter raised his glass and looked into the eyes of the woman who was leaning so closely towards him that her soft breath fell upon his cheek. She whispered something in his ear. For a moment, perhaps, he was carried away, but for a moment only. Then Sogrange's voice and the beat of ...

— Peter Ruff and the Double Four • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... The hors d'oeuvre came on a circular three-tiered stand; red strips of herrings and silver anchovies, salads where green peas and bits of carrot lurked under golden layers of sauce, sliced tomatoes, potato salad green-specked with parsley, hard-boiled eggs barely visible under thickness of vermilion-tinged dressing, ...

— One Man's Initiation--1917 • John Dos Passos