canapé
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Coronation music, including Hubert Parry's anthem I Was Glad will be followed by a champagne and canapé reception in the town's Priory Centre.
From BBC ● May 5, 2023
On a recent evening, customers trickled into the dining room, where they were offered a canapé — a small, savory pastry — baked with aged parmesan to whet their appetites.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2022
This canapé base is a collard blini, layered with a light and airy chevre black-eyed pea mousse and topped with a brunoise of roasted beet, lemon zest and green apple Pop Rocks.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 30, 2020
So an “efficient, affordable and zero-waste” canapé was made from cucumber, tomato, mould microprotein, dried anchovy and indian salad hydroponically grown in Clapham.
From The Guardian ● May 15, 2019
It is not necessary to pass anything whatever with melon or grapefruit, or a macédoine of fruit, or a canapé.
From Etiquette by Emily Post
This company wouldn’t be a snack — it wouldn’t even be a canape — for $4 trillion Alphabet or $5 trillion Apple.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
Related: Festive party food hacks and the return of the Egg Master Dates with cheese and chorizo This is the most delicious canape I’ve ever eaten.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 2015
English celebrity chef Nigella Lawson was pushing a pea-guac-topped canape nearly 10 years ago.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 2, 2015
Thirty minutes before the first canape is delivered, though, she asks for no company in the kitchen: “I’m in concentrated mode,” she says.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2015
Emmert asked, popping another canape into his mouth.
From Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper
One friend would debut a play, naturally, and everyone would come back to my apartment afterward for cocktails and canapés on the fire escape.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
“Well, once I saw her, I knew we weren’t here just to eat canapés and see Corvettes. We had to help her.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026
No wonder Woodward is still writing all these books; the guy’s just trying to enjoy his canapés, and the country’s top military officer waltzes over to share choice content like this.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2024
But if she’s having friends over for cocktails and canapés, she wants something else.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2024
She ordered flowers, she discussed canapés and drinks with the caterer, and she spent a whole evening with Lyra deciding whom to invite.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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