hors d'oeuvre
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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
"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
The dinner consisted of hors-d'oeuvre and grapefruit, turtle soup, fish of all sorts, elaborate entrées, roasts, breasts of plover served separately with salad, and a riot of ices and exotic fruits.
From The "Goldfish" by Train, Arthur Cheney
Figs are generally served as hors-d'oeuvre, or used in puddings, etc.
From Hand-Book of Practical Cookery for Ladies and Professional Cooks by Blot, Pierre
Cut in slices and served with parsley, it is a hors-d'oeuvre.
From Hand-Book of Practical Cookery for Ladies and Professional Cooks by Blot, Pierre
