hors d'oeuvre

短语

(正餐前的)开胃食品

发音

UK /ˌɔːˈdɜːv/
US /ˌɔɹˈdɝv/

词形变化

hors d'oeuvres 复数

别名

hors-d'oeuvre hors d'œuvre

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A small, light, and usually savory first course in a meal.

    烹饪
  2. 2.

    Anything preliminary and of secondary concern.

    次要的事情

    引申义

    1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados His price was five hundred pounds in English or French gold—an interesting phase of your ordinary blackmailer's antipathy to paper—merely an hors d'oeuvre to the solid things to come, of course.

  3. 3.

    Something unusual or extraordinary.

    过时 罕用

词汇关系

名词

上位词 3

starter appetizer appetiser

下位词 2

pigs in blankets rollmops

词源

Borrowed from French hors d'œuvre.

来源：wiktionary