relevén.
/rələˈveɪ/, /rɛləˈveɪ/, U.S. /rələˈveɪ/, /ˌrɛləˈveɪ/ 1. In French cookery: a dish or course brought in to replace one that has been removed. Cf. remove n. 5b. Now chiefly historical.
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1825 Countess of Blessington Jrnl. Dec. in E. Clay Lady B. at Naples (1979) 141 The fragments of entrées and relevés.
1846 Lady Montefiore Jewish Man. p. xv Releves, or Removes, are top and bottom dishes, which replace the soup and fish.
1889 A. Filippini Table 21 French dinners are generally served in three main courses, viz., Relevés, Entrées, and Rotis; all the rest are considered side courses.
1906 Mrs. Beeton's Bk. Househ. Managem. (rev. ed.) lxii. 1668 Relevé.., the remove. A course of a dinner, consisting of large joints of meat, four-footed game, and sometimes joints of fish.
1961 N. Froud et al. tr. P. Montagné & A. Gottschalk Larousse Gastronomique 805/2 Remove. Relevé—Dish which in French service relieves (in the sense that one sentry relieves another) the soup or the fish.
1998 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 4 Feb. f1 In time, the number of categories [of courses] diminished, and the releve and the entremet went the way of the parasol.
2. Ballet. A rise from flat foot to half or full point, executed either smoothly or with a slight spring; the action or style of doing this.
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1914 T. Kinney & M. W. Kinney Dance iv. 69 A relevé consists of a..rise to the ball or point of the supporting foot, while the active foot is raised to the height..of the knee of the supporting leg.
1930 M. Craske & C. W. Beaumont Theory & Pract. Allegro in Classical Ballet 66 Execute two Petits Battements with a relevé and dégagé.
1953 Ballet Ann. 7 83 That infinitesimal moment of holding the breath in a relevé on point in a held pose.
1976 New Yorker 29 Mar. 92/3 He has an immobile thick torso, a heaviness in plié and relevé.
2003 New Yorker 10 Feb. 77/1 The carriage of her arms, her developpé, and her relevé were all perfect.
3. Ecology. A detailed description of the floristic or phytosociological characteristics of a small area within a stand of vegetation, considered as a sample; (also) an area used as the basis for such a description, or the vegetation found there.
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1922 Jrnl. Ecol. 10 245 Relevé sociologique (Aufnahme, floristic list made in the field), i.e. a list of species accompanied by mentions or coefficients corresponding with the ‘analytical’ and ‘synthetic’ characters mentioned below.]
1930 F. R. Bharucha tr. Braun-Blanquet & Pavillard's Vocab. Plant Sociol. 6 The Sociological ‘Relevé’..is a floristic enumeration accompanied by coefficients or numbers corresponding with analytical or synthetic characters mentioned below. It may relate to any plant population or to a particular example of a definite association.
1962 Jrnl. Ecol. 50 765 It must now be shown how one decides that a group of relevés forms an association.
1983 Watsonia 14 251 Relevés were made of Schoenus ferrugineus stands to illustrate the range of vegetation types in which the plant occurs.
2006 Jrnl. Orthoptera Res. 15 251/1 Vegetation releves, also using the Braun-Blanquet approach, were made in parallel on the same plots.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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