hors d'oeuvre

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌɔːˈdɜːv/    美 /ˌɔɹˈdɝv/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small, light, and usually savory first course in a meal.
  2. Anything preliminary and of secondary concern. broadly
    — His price was five hundred pounds in English or French gold—an interesting phase of your ordinary blackmailer's antipathy to paper—merely an hors d'oeuvre to the solid things to come, of course.
  3. Something unusual or extraordinary. dated,rare

词形变化

hors d'oeuvre plural hors d'oeuvres plural hors-d'oeuvre alternative hors d'œuvre alternative hors-d'œuvre alternative

词汇关系

近义词
apéritif appetizer entrée starter tapa
相关词
canapé horse's doovers

词源

Etymology tree
French hors d'œuvrebor.
English hors d'oeuvre
Borrowed from French hors d'œuvre.
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