单词 | side-dish |
释义 | ˈside-dish [side n.1] A dish which is accessory or additional to the principal one in a course; a dish of the kind commonly used for this purpose.
1725Fam. Dict. s.v. Leg of Mutton, A Side-dish of a farced Leg of Mutton. 1747–96H. Glasse Cookery v. 75 The kidneys make a pretty side-dish of themselves. 1820Byron Juan v. xxxii, A roast and a ragout, And fish, and soup, by some side dishes back'd. 1853A. Soyer Pantropheon 383 [It] would have been then a little entre-met, or a cold side-dish (hors-d'œuvre). 1881‘Rita’ My Lady Coquette ii, Cook suggests various side-dishes for the dinner. fig.1819Lockhart Peter's Lett. lxxi. III. 241 Some practised punster, who has been invited chiefly with an eye to this sort of exhibition (from which circumstance he derives his own nickname of a side-dish). |

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