What is "canape"

n. (alternative spelling of canapé English)

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.

n. an appetizer consisting usually of a thin slice of bread or toast spread with caviar or cheese or other savory food

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.

Canapé is a bridge bidding method in which the second suit bid may be (or must be) longer than or at least as long as the first. The name Canapé refers to a small bite presented before a big meal.

Canapé is the invention of Pierre Albarran, a French auction and contract bridge player, theorist, and author. His book on the topic is long out-of-print and hard to find. A French pair, Pierre Jaïs and Roger Trézel, used a canapé system to become one of the strongest pairs in the world during the 1950s and 1960s. They achieved a triple crown of major world championships from 1956 to 1962, two at representing France and the inaugural World Open Pairs Championship. Canapé is also the basis of the Roman Club and Blue Team Club systems, which were used by the Italian Blue Team to win many world championships in the 1950s and 1960s. Some of the early Blue Team players used a "natural" canapé style. A "Modified Italian Canapé System" is still in use today.

An advantage of the canapé method is that four-card major suits are introduced on the first round of the auction even when a longer suit is held. Thus, eight-card or longer major suit fits are found right away and some otherwise difficult to bid hands are handled easily. If no major suit exists, the partnership can play in the opener's longest suit. Opening four-card majors frequently has a preemptive value because takeout doubles are less effective in cases where the opponents have not opened their longest suit. When four-card majors were popular in the United States, even the most adamant proponents of "natural" bidding opened four-card majors ahead of five-card minors on hands that presented rebid problems.

The following examples apply to some canapé systems but not all:

The hand KQ73 5 AQJ94 J54 is opened 1. If partner does not raise the spades, the diamond suit is introduced in the next bidding round. With the spade and diamond suits reversed (AQJ94 5 KQ73 J54) the prescribed opening is 1 followed by a spade bid in the next round. The consequence of this approach is that on more balanced hands such as hands with a 4-4-3-2 distribution, only one four card suit can be introduced. With the hand KQ73 95 AQJ4 J54 a Canapé bidder will open 1 and following a 2 response rebid notrump. Hands with a 5-3-3-2 distribution are either opened in the five card suit followed by a notrump rebid (or a rebid in the same suit if the suit is solid), or in certain cases opened Canapé on a strong three card suit.

Canapé is a New York Emmy-award nominated television show on CUNY TV. The show premiered on September, 1997.

Stylish and modern, Canapé is the only program entirely devoted to French cultural events in New York and the United States.

This monthly half-hour show includes exhibitions, film releases, book translations, festivals, ballets, concerts and theater productions.

Canapé is one of the few French programs to appear on American television.

Canapé has received three nominations for a New York Emmy Award in the category of Arts Programming in 2003, 2004 and 2007.

The show is produced by CUNY TV and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

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A canapé is a piece of furniture similar to a couch, and is meant to describe an elegant sofa made out of elaborately carved wood with wooden legs, and upholstered seats, back, and armrests that seats three, that emerged from France in the 18th century. A style created during the Louis XV and Louis XVI periods, similar yet different from designs used by Thomas Chippendale, it later became popular in the United States during the 19th century.

Its shape is distinct from other sofas of the period, including the divan and chaise longue, but does include several forms. Frequently matching chairs were made to go with it. Precious hardwoods such as walnut, cherry, and mahogany were often used in its construction.

Currently the term is used in world furniture design and retail as a variation on " sofa", except when antiques or reproductions of 18th century designs are concerned.

CANape is a software tool from Vector Informatik. This development software, widely used by OEMs and ECU suppliers of automotive industries is used to calibrate algorithms in ECUs at runtime.