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noun

Entree n.

A coming in, or entrance; hence, freedom of access; permission or right to enter; as, to have the entrée of a house.

(Cookery) In French usage, a dish served at the beginning of dinner to give zest to the appetite; in English usage, a side dish, served with a joint, or between the courses, as a cutlet, scalloped oysters, etc. (obsolescent)

The dish which comprises the main course of a meal, especially in a restaurant; as, there were many entrees on the menu.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Entree" Quotes from Famous Books

... what John called Reyburn's transcendental twaddle, but which were meat and drink to Lilian, living half alone in her world of fancy; when he was in town again he took her through galleries of pictures and statues where John had not an entree; he placed his opera-box at her disposal; and when John, who insisted on her acceptance of Reyburn's courtesies, heard them talk together about the mysteries of the music or the ballet there, he could have found it possible to question the justice of Fate ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 15, - No. 87, March, 1875 • Various

... him see how impossible his fallacies were; but he could perceive that Jeff thought him either wilfully ignorant or helplessly innocent, and of far less authority than a barber who had the entree of all these swell families as hair-dresser, and who corroborated the witness of a hotel night-clerk (Jeff would not give their names) to the depravity of the upper classes. He had to content himself with saying: "I hope you will be ashamed some day of having believed such rot. But I suppose ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... liu i trouvames E une roche, fu cavee, Devant ert estraite la entree, Dedans fu voesse ben faite, Tante bel cum se ...

— Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres • Henry Adams

... was going up-stairs into the drawing-room, just before she and her sisters made their grand entree, that Lilly had heard that "Cousin Joe" had not come home in the vessel with Gerald Lawson. He had gone to Europe by the overland route, and wild, mad fellow that he was, had determined to join the ...

— Stories by American Authors, Volume 3 • Various

... think that music should entirely oust doctrine," began Mr. Smith, refusing an entree with a gentle wave ...

— The Green Carnation • Robert Smythe Hichens

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