hors-d'oeuvres

Updated: June 2, 2025

The school-teachers were already crowding round the table and eating the hors-d'oeuvres. Sysoev frowned; he was displeased that his colleagues had begun to eat and drink without waiting for him. He noticed among them Lyapunov, the man who had dictated at the examination, and going up to him, began: "It was not acting like a comrade! No, indeed! Gentlemanly people don't dictate like that!"

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - The Schoolmaster

Also, long after Nozdrev had ceased to turn the handle, one particularly shrill-pitched pipe which had, throughout, refused to harmonise with the rest kept up a protracted whistling on its own account. Finally, after some hors-d'oeuvres of sturgeon's back, they sat down to table the time being then nearly five o'clock.

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol - Dead Souls