What is "appetizers"

Usage examples of "appetizers".

As soon as he was seated, a waiter brought several trays of zakuski, Russian appetizers: pickled beef tongue with horseradish sauce, red and black caviar and blini, mushrooms in aspic, pickled vegetables, herring.

Red‑faced, I slam my Bellini down on the table and when I look up our appetizers have arrived.

None of us complain except for McDermott, who asks, "Did he just take our appetizers away?

It makes me not hungry but our meals arrive almost immediately after our appetizers are taken away and we begin to eat.

The waitress pouts her lips at me when I reach for another breadstick and I lift my head toward her and pout mine back, then press my head again into the palms of my hands, and this happens again when she brings our appetizers.

I've kept my hands over both ears trying to block out Evelyn's voice during this whole interim between her mistaking Norris Powell for Ivana Trump and the arrival of our appetizers but now I'm hungry so I tentatively remove my right hand from my ear.

Our appetizers are removed and at the same time our entrées arrive, so Evelyn has to take her hand off mine to make room for the plates.

Somewhere along the line the waiter removes half‑eaten appetizers, brings fresh Coronas, free‑range chicken with raspberry vinegar and guacamole, calf's liver with shad roe and leeks, and though I'm not sure who ordered what it doesn't really matter since both plates look exactly the same.

And though I cannot be positive that I'm not hallucinating, there seem to be midgets dressed in green and red elf suits and felt hats walking around with trays of appetizers.

I stopped packing the appetizers into plastic containers, took off my witch's hat and mask, and surveyed him in the painted muslin robe and hood.

For appetizers, bring an order of stuffed mushrooms and one of oysters.

The same waiter who had come in five or so minutes earlier was now holding aloft a large tray loaded with appetizers.

Three times, that Nell counted, he touched Ripley’s hand as they enjoyed appetizers in the living room.

Then I think we’ll have drinks and appetizers in the garden, while the weather holds.

The waiter came back with the final round of appetizers, and Dan was approaching his limit.