hors d'oeuvre
Example Sentences
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"Come here. I want you to meet my friends. We're all having an hors-d'oeuvre."
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
We may like bouillotte, delight in whist, be enraptured with boston, and yet grow tired of them all; but we always come back to ecarte—it is not only a game, it is a hors-d'oeuvre!
From The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas père, Alexandre
Mesnil Andre's tin of veal in jelly would be a hors-d'oeuvre.
From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Wray, Fitzwater
A very small piece is served, generally like every other hors-d'oeuvre.
From Hand-Book of Practical Cookery for Ladies and Professional Cooks by Blot, Pierre
