hors d'oeuvre

1. 1.

   a dish served as an appetizer before the main meal

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Questions about hors d'oeuvre

What does hors d'oeuvre mean?

hors d'oeuvre means "a dish served as an appetizer before the main meal".

Is hors d'oeuvre a common word?

hors d'oeuvre is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.