hors d'oeuvre

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  A small, light, and usually savory first course in a meal.
 * 2)  Anything of secondary concern; not the primary thing.
 * 3)  Something unusual or extraordinary.

Quotations

 * On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d’oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold.
 * On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d’oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold.
 * On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d’oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: заку́ска, пераку́ска, пераку́с
 * Bulgarian: ордьо́вър, мезе́, предя́стие,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , , ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, hors d'oeuvre
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: antaŭmanĝaĵo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German: Hors d’œuvre,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese:, つき出し, , , アペタイザー
 * Korean:, 전채,
 * Latin: gustātiō, prōmulsis
 * Macedonian: о́рдевер
 * Maori: kūmamatanga, whakapūwharu
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Slovak: predkrm, predjedlo
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pampagana
 * Thai: ออเดิร์ฟ
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: заку́ска, за́куска, пере́куска
 * Volapük:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 次要的事情
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: sivuseikka
 * French:, , ,
 * Portuguese:


 * Icelandic: ,

Etymology
lit. 'apart from the work', in other words, "apart from the main meal"