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Rated: E · Book · Educational · #2105953
One hundred facts that are interesting but ultimately useless.
#908052 added March 31, 2017 at 8:33pm
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"Hors d'oeuvre"
"Hors d'oeuvre"
- cuisine / etymology -

The term "hors d'oeuvre" (a smaller food item usually served before the main meal) is comprised of three French words: "hors" ("outside" -- from Latin "foris" and a cognate of "foreign"), "de" ("of" or "from"), and "oeuvre" ("work" -- from Latin "opera" and cognate of "opus").

An hors d'oeuvre is literally something "outside of the work", and figuratively something prepared separately from the official courses of a meal.


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