hors d'oeuvre
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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
Radishes.—The cuts below are turnip-rooted red radishes, cut with a small knife, put in cold water for about an hour, and served with butter, as a hors-d'oeuvre.
From Hand-Book of Practical Cookery for Ladies and Professional Cooks by Blot, Pierre
Cucumbers, 321. in hors-d'oeuvre, 322. pickled, 355. in salad, 350. stuffed, 322.
From Hand-Book of Practical Cookery for Ladies and Professional Cooks by Blot, Pierre
Place the toast or slices of bread on a dish, tastefully arranged all around, a few sprigs of parsley in the middle, and you have a fine hors-d'oeuvre.
From Hand-Book of Practical Cookery for Ladies and Professional Cooks by Blot, Pierre
