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‖ hors d'œuvre, adv. and n.|ɔr dœvr, (h)ɔː ˈdɜːvr|
[Fr., lit. ‘outside (the) work’.]
A. adv. Out of the ordinary course of things.
1714Addison Spect. No. 576 ⁋5 The Frenzy of one who is given up for a Lunatick, is a Frenzy hors d'œuvre..something which is singular in its Kind.
B. n. [The pl., which remains unchanged in Fr., usually has -s in Eng.]
1. Something out of the ordinary course.
1783H. Walpole Lett. to Mann 11 June (1858) VIII. 379 This is a hors d'œuvre, nor do I know a word of news.
2. An extra dish served as a relish to whet the appetite between the courses of a meal or (more generally) at its commencement.
1742Pope Dunc. iv. 317 He..Try'd all hors-d'œuvres, all liqueurs defin'd, Judicious drank, and greatly-daring din'd. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 8 Aug., I have seen turnips make their appearance, not as a dessert, but by way of hors d'œuvres, or whets. 1898Pall Mall Mag. Jan. 85 The more unpalatable is an hors d'œuvre [to him], the more fashionable is the dinner which it precedes.
fig.1877L. W. M. Lockhart Mine is Thine xiii, Art and literature were for him the hors d'œuvres of life. |