hors-d'œuvre
See also: hors-d'oeuvre and hors d'oeuvre
English
Noun
hors-d'œuvre (plural hors-d'œuvre or hors-d'œuvres)
- Alternative spelling of hors d'oeuvre
French
Etymology
From hors (“outside”) + d’ (“of”) + œuvre (“work, the main course”).
Pronunciation
- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /ɔʁ.d‿œvʁ/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "France" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.
IPA(key): /œ̃ ɔʁ.d‿œvʁ/ (un hors-d'œuvre)Audio: (file)
Noun
hors-d’œuvre m (plural hors-d’œuvre)
- (cooking) appetizer, starter, hors d'oeuvre (small, light, and usually savory first course in a meal)
- (architecture) extension, appurtenance (room of a building that is not part of the main structure)
- (literature) digression (act of straying from the main subject that could be removed from the text without detriment to the main plot)
- (figurative) addendum, extraneity, superfluity, accessory, hors-d'oeuvre (something additional or secondary to the main thing)
Adjective
- (architecture) stand-alone (standing apart from the main body of a building)
- (literature) off-topic, digressive (not pertaining directly to the subject at hand)
Categories:
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- English indeclinable nouns
- English multiword terms
- English terms spelled with Œ
- French compound terms
- French terms with aspirated h
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French multiword terms
- French entries with language name categories using raw markup
- French masculine nouns
- fr:Cooking
- fr:Architecture
- fr:Literature
- French adjectives
- French terms spelled with Œ