couvert
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See also: Couvert
English
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]Borrowed from French couvert .
Noun
[edit ]couvert (plural couverts )
- cover charge
- 1941, Federal Writers' Project, Los Angeles: A Guide to the City and Its Environs:
- Earl Carroll's Theater-Restaurant, 6230 Sunset Blvd. Dinner from 7:30 to 11 p.m., no couvert; without dinner, admission charge.
- 1965, The Spectator:
- [...] the habit of hotel restaurants charging a couvert to residents, and of clubs charging table money to their own members.
- 2010, Karen Torme Olson, Frommer's Croatia:
- The couvert is a "cover charge" that is a prima facie charge for bread, which is brought to the table automatically in most places.
Anagrams
[edit ]Dutch
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]Borrowed from French couvert , from Middle French couvert .
Pronunciation
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]couvert n (plural couverts , no diminutive )
Synonyms
[edit ]French
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]Inherited from Old French covert , from Latin coopertus .
Pronunciation
[edit ]Adjective
[edit ]couvert (feminine couverte , masculine plural couverts , feminine plural couvertes )
Noun
[edit ]couvert m (plural couverts )
- Set of cutlery, place setting
- covering, shelter
Derived terms
[edit ]Descendants
[edit ]Participle
[edit ]couvert (feminine couverte , masculine plural couverts , feminine plural couvertes )
Further reading
[edit ]- "couvert", in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
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