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Entree   /ˈɑntrˌeɪ/   Listen
Entree

noun
1.
The principal dish of a meal.  Synonym: main course.
2.
The right to enter.  Synonyms: access, accession, admission, admittance.
3.
Something that provides access (to get in or get out).  Synonyms: entrance, entranceway, entry, entryway.  "Beggars waited just outside the entryway to the cathedral"
4.
The act of entering.






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"Entree" Quotes from Famous Books



... bake for twenty minutes, or simply cut in halves and stewed in stock, with pepper and salt they are good, or you can simmer them gently in water and when ready to serve, pour over them a white sauce as for vegetable marrow. If they are cheap in England the following entree would be ...
— The Belgian Cookbook • various various

... girls, ravishingly beautiful in their dark, semi-mysterious way, had been brought from some out-of-the-way French convent to the life of the great city, where to gain entree into society's holy of holies became a fetish above ...
— The Promise - A Tale of the Great Northwest • James B. Hendryx

... brightened, as he informed me he had no classes for that morning, and—"We would see!" We did see a whole host of living things outdoors,—flowers peeping out; leaves of the willows, just breaking; buds ready to burst; all nature waiting for the sun's call of the "grand entree." It was a good day; but I pitied that poor old dull-eyed herbarium specimen of a botanical professor, in whose veins the blood was congealing, when everything about called on him to get out under the rays of God's sun, and study, ...
— Getting Acquainted with the Trees • J. Horace McFarland

... thus constituted, it became a matter almost of impossibility to meet any one particular person frequently, excepting out in the street, unless you had the entree of their house. Hence, I never could chat with Min, as I had done at the decorations; and, naturally, I ...
— She and I, Volume 1 • John Conroy Hutcheson

... recommendation, to understand that about the fifteenth of this moneth, by letters sent from Venyce, it was spoken, that the Duke of Burbon with the armye imperyall by vyolence shold enter Rome as the 6th of this moneth; and that in the same entree the said Duke should be slayne; and that the Pope had savyd Himself with the Cardynalls in Castell Angell; whiche tydinges bycause they ware not written unto Venyce, but upon relation of a souldier, that came from Rome to Viterbe, and bycause ther cam hither no maner of confirmation thereof unto ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 9 • Various


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