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‖ spécialité|spɛsjalite|
Also specialité.
[Fr.: see speciality.]
A special or distinguishing feature, characteristic, etc.; a specialty. Also spécialité de la maison, a dish which a restaurant considers its speciality, or one for which it is particularly noted. Cf. speciality 5 c.
1839W. A. Shee Jrnl. Sept. in My Contemporaries (1893) iii. 79 The jousts..are..the specialité of such a meeting. 1857Geo. Eliot Let. 1 Sept. (1954) II. 379 Every new or renovated journal should have a specialité—do something not yet done, fill up a gap. 1861K. Stanley Let. 1 Feb. in B. & P. Russell Amberley Papers (1937) I. iii. 114 Mr. Oliphant..is very anxious that Japan should not be thought his spécialité so he will not learn the language. 1893Somerville & ‘Ross’ Vine Country ix. 167 The spécialité of the town, ordered expressly for us by Monsieur A., the macaroons made at the convent according to an ancient recipe known to the nuns. 1914‘Saki’ When William Came xiv. 242 Iced mulberry salad, my dear, it's a spécialité de la maison, so to speak; they say the roving husband brought the recipe from Astrakhan, or Seville, or some such outlandish place. 1935A. E. W. Mason They wouldn't be Chessmen xii. 137 He would take his luncheon at a famous restaurant on the Quai which had a specialité de la maison. 1956R. Macaulay Towers of Trebizond xi. 119 We got several good trout, and two odd-shaped fishes which must have been a specialité of that lake, as we had never seen them before. 1957‘P. Portobello’ Deb's Mum 18 Old Lady Dolgelly, who made a spécialité of housekeeping. 1962‘R. Simons’ Killing Chase v. 68 ‘How about Specialité de la Maison?’ ‘What's that?’ ‘Cod roes on toast.’ 1976‘M. Innes’ Gay Phoenix iii. 42 These Paphians, like the restaurants, had their spécialités. |