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单词 entremess
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entremessn.

Forms: Middle English entermes, Middle English entermews, Middle English entermis, Middle English entremees, Middle English entremeese, Middle English entremesse, Middle English entyrmes, Middle English 1600s entremes, Middle English 1600s–1700s entremess; also Scottish pre-1700 entremass.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French entremes.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French entremes (French entremets : see entremet n.) entertaining diversion (c1170 in Old French), dish, course (late 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman), dish served between the courses of a banquet or other meal (beginning of the 13th cent.) < entre- enter- prefix + mes mess n.1 In later use remodelled after mess n.1
Obsolete.
A dish served between the courses of a banquet or other meal. Also figurative and in figurative contexts: something resembling this; something serving as a diversion or entertainment in contrast to what has come before or after. Cf. intermess n.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > course > [noun] > food between courses
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1340 Ayenbite (1866) 56 And huanne þe mes byeþ y-come on efter þe oþer: þanne byeþ þe burdes and þe trufles uor entremes.
?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 206 In stede of entremess or a sukkarke.
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) v. l. 2406 Thus kan this ladi [sc. Fortune] pleyen hir paient Bi a maner of deynous mokerie, Hir entermes forth serue hem of entent, To folk that truste hir onli of folie.
a1475 Bp. Grossetest's Househ. Stat. (Sloane 1986) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 330 Commaunde ȝe þat youre dysshe be welle fyllyd and hepid, and namely of entermes.
a1500 tr. La Belle Dame sans Mercy (Cambr.) l. 156 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 86 For to Iuge his moste rewfull semblaunce, God wot it was a petous entremes.
1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 130 The Entremesses shall be of a Fanaticks Giblets.
1708 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (ed. 2) 444 The true Chard used in pottages and Entre-messes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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