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† ˈentremess Obs.
Forms: 4 entremass, -mees, -mes(se, entermews, entyrmes, 5 entermes, -mis, 7–8 entremess.
[a. OFr. entremès (mod.F. entremets: see entremets), f. entre between + mès (mod.F. mets) course of viands:—L. missum something sent or placed.]
Something served between the courses at a banquet; also fig.
1340Ayenb. 56 And huanne þe mes byeþ y-come on efter þe oþer: þanne byeþ þe burdes and þe trufles uor entremes. 1375Barbour Bruce xvi. 457 Thai had ane felloune entre⁓mass. c1400Mandeville xxxi. (1839) 309 In stede of entre messe, or a sukkarke. c1430Lydg. Bochas v. xxv. (1554) 138 a, Thus can this lady..Her entermis forth serue. c1450Bp. Grossetest's Househ. Stat. in Babees Bk. 329 Commauned ȝe þat youre dysshe be welle fyllyd and hepid, and namely of entermes. c1460Ros La Belle Dame 156 in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems 57 For to juge his ruful semblance, god wote it was a piteous entemes [? read entermes]. 1672Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 130 The Entremesses shall be of a Fanaticks Giblets. 1708Mortimer Husb. (ed. 2) I. 444 The true Chard used in pottages and Entre-messes. |