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Definition of Canapé
1. Noun. An appetizer consisting usually of a thin slice of bread or toast spread with caviar or cheese or other savory food.
Definition of Canapé
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of canapé) ¹
2. Noun. An hors d’oeuvre, a bite size slice open-faced sandwich made of thin bread or toast topped with savory garnish. ¹
3. Noun. A piece of furniture similar to a couch or settee, and is meant to describe an elegant sofa. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Canapé
1. a food served before a meal [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canapé
Literary usage of Canapé
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fifty-two Sunday Dinners: A Book of Recipes, Arranged on a Unique Plan by Elizabeth O. Hiller (1915)
"... of each canape. CLAM AND TOMATO CONSOMME To four cups of Consomme add two cups
each clam water and tomato pulp. Clear, and add soft part of clams. ..."
2. Chafing-dish Recipes by Mrs Gesine Knubel Lemcke, Gesine Lemcke (1896)
"Set aside to cool, lay the crab meat, equally divided, over each canape, put 1
mushroom in center of each canape, and around the mushroom 1 teaspoonful ..."
3. Mrs. Norton's Cook-book: Selecting, Cooking, and Serving for the Home Table by Jeanette Young Norton (1917)
"This will make ten canape"s. Liver Canape Boil and chop very fine a ... This will
make six canape"s. India Canape Chop fine enough cold boiled ham to make ..."
4. The Mendelssohn Club Cook Book by Mendelssohn Club (Rockford, Ill.) (1909)
"Chocolate Canape. Two cups of sugar; J ^ cake of chocolate (cut up); 2 tablespoons
butter; Yz cup of raisins or nuts or both; J^ cup of hot water. ..."
5. The Island Empire: Or, Scenes of the First Exile of the Emperor Napoleon I. by Henry Drummond Wolff (1855)
"... —Canape"—Fountain of Barbarossa—Fig-leaf Cup—Monserrato—Its Situation—A
Sacristan—Chapel—Irish Priest—Sassi Tedeschi-—An Incident of War. ..."
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