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Definition of Entrée
1. Noun. The principal dish of a meal.
2. Noun. The right to enter.
Generic synonyms: Right
Specialized synonyms: Door
Derivative terms: Admit
3. Noun. Something that provides access (to get in or get out). "Beggars waited just outside the entryway to the cathedral"
Generic synonyms: Access, Approach
Specialized synonyms: Arch, Archway, Door, Doorway, Room Access, Threshold, Gateway, Hatchway, Opening, Scuttle, Pithead, Portal, Porte-cochere, Servant's Entrance, Service Door, Service Entrance, Stage Door, Vomitory
Derivative terms: Enter, Enter
4. Noun. The act of entering. "She made a graceful entree into the ballroom"
Definition of Entrée
1. Noun. An alternative spelling of '''entrée'''. ¹
2. Noun. (chiefly US Canada) the main course or main dish of a meal ¹
3. Noun. (chiefly British French Canada Australia New Zealand) (historic US Canada) a smaller dish served before the main course of a meal. ¹
4. Noun. The act of entering somewhere, or permission to enter; admittance ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Entrée
1. the principal dish of a meal [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Entrée
Literary usage of Entrée
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Cookery, in All Its Branches: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice by Eliza Acton (1858)
"(ENTREE.) Skin, and cut into joints, one or two young chickens, ... (ENTREE.)
{French Receipt.) Take closely off the flesh of the breast and wing together, ..."
2. Gems of the Centennial Exhibition: Consisting of Illustrated Descriptions of by George Titus Ferris (1877)
"... by the figure of a lion, and on either side of the body of the tureen is a
highly-burnished silver medallion. The entree-dish is of hammered or ..."
3. Modern Cookery, for Private Families: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice by Eliza Acton (1860)
"(ENTREE.) This is the French name for small fried pastry of various forms, ...
(ENTREE.) Make the forcemeat No. 1, Chapter VIII.. sufficiently firm with ..."
4. Russia by Astolphe Custine (1855)
"Entree of the Imperial Family.— The Emperor Master of the Ceremonies.—Forms of
the Greek Church.—M. <le Pahlen.—Emotion of the Empress. ..."
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