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canape
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Word definitions for canape in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An hors d'oeuvre, a bite size slice open-faced sandwich made of thin bread or toast topped with savory garnish. 2 A piece of furniture similar to a couch or settee, an elegant sofa.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A canapé is a type of hors d’œuvre (“outside the (main) work”), a small, prepared and usually decorative food, held in the fingers and often eaten in one bite.
Usage examples of canape.
No one spoke to him or even seemed to see him: several times his head was struck by an arm or hand blindly reaching out toward the platter, or raising a canape to an open mouth.
That boy was meant to be doing this while she got her trays of canapes ready.
Tom and Cathy got into action, the food was unpacked, the conveyor belt for canapes was under way with June and her friend Helen.
You know, all these discussions about canapes and finger food, with what I had to do today.
The canapes she keeps waving under all the old noses are soda crackers pooped on with meat by-products.
Filfaeril grinned viciously and glided to his side without stumbling or tripping or finding some other excuse to let even one of the awful canapes slide off the tray.
I turned the oven on, took a tray of canapes from the fridge, and carried it into the dining room.
Doreen returned with trays of canapes and the teapot, which she placed in front of me.
I look over to my supposed best friend, Dominic, who is making ludicrous jerking motions with his head and ignoring the two gentlemen hovering in front of his proffered canapé tray.
But the greeting fades from my lips as he bows his head in embarrassment and selects a canapé from my tray, puts it in his mouth and then continues to pull his coat on without any further eye contact.
Three days later Mattie picked up a canapé from a passing tray and surveyed the throng of well-dressed people milling around a prestigious Seattle gallery.
Mattie nibbled her canapé and unconsciously began tapping the toe of her black leather pump.
Elizabet whispered to Ebby as the Director worked the room, chatting up the officers nibbling on canapes and drinking Champagne.
There was a lot of jazz and jabber in the air, what with the good champagne, the prettified canapes, the tuxed tapsters, the money, and swapping the odd smile or wave or shout I moved among them, free as water.
One of the Engineers seized a fistful of canapes from the still untoppled buffet table, and all turned to run.