HORS D'OEUVRE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dish served as an appetizer before the main meal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("hors d'oeuvre" is a kind of...):

appetiser; appetizer; starter (food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hors d'oeuvre"):

stuffed mushroom (mushrooms stuffed with any of numerous mixtures of e.g. meats or nuts or seafood or spinach)

rollmops (a pickled herring filet that has been rolled or wrapped around a pickle)

pigs in blankets (small frankfurters wrapped in biscuit dough and baked)

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