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entrée

Syllabification: (en·trée)
(also entree)
Translate entrée | into Italian
Definition of entrée

noun

  • 1chiefly North American the main course of a meal.
  • British a dish served between the fish and meat courses at a formal dinner.
  • 2the right to enter or join a particular sphere or group:an actress with an entrée into the intellectual society of Berlin her beauty and charm rapidly gained her entrée to high society their connections and relative wealth gave them entree to all of the most select entertainments

Origin:

early 18th century (denoting a piece of instrumental music forming the first part of a suite): French, feminine past participle of entrer 'enter' (see entry)

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