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canapé
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Definition:a type of hors d’œuvre, a small, prepared and usually decorative food, consisting of a small piece of bread (sometimes toasted), puff pastry, or a cracker topped with some savoury food, held in the fingers and often eaten in one bite.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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Summer: [...] just keep your sci-fi friends away from my awesome ones.
Rick: yeah? and you keep your awesome friends away from my canapés.
Adult Swim. Rick and Morty: Season 1: Ricksy Business (2014)
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The Major: [answers phone] 3549. Ahhh the Bucket filly! prounounced Bouquet. ... What? ... A cocktails and canapé hour? Ah god yes, I must have a reccy at that!
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they sat on a couch to eat canapes and hors d'oeuvres.
V.C. Andrews. Flowers in the Attic, p.194 (1979)
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Trout was in Billy’s dining room, gobbling canapés. He was talking with a mouthful of Philadelphia cream cheese and salmon roe to an optometrist’s wife.
Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-Five (1968)
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She was talking loudly, and a group of people were trailing along behind her, clutching drinks and canapés in their hands.
Sarah Dessen. The Truth About Forever (2004)
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