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canapé

[kan-uh-pee, -pay, ka-na-pay] / ˈkæn ə pi, -ˌpeɪ, ka naˈpeɪ /




canape


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Coronation music, including Hubert Parry's anthem I Was Glad will be followed by a champagne and canapé reception in the town's Priory Centre.

From BBC ● May 5, 2023

On a recent evening, customers trickled into the dining room, where they were offered a canapé — a small, savory pastry — baked with aged parmesan to whet their appetites.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2022

This canapé base is a collard blini, layered with a light and airy chevre black-eyed pea mousse and topped with a brunoise of roasted beet, lemon zest and green apple Pop Rocks.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 30, 2020

So an “efficient, affordable and zero-waste” canapé was made from cucumber, tomato, mould microprotein, dried anchovy and indian salad hydroponically grown in Clapham.

From The Guardian ● May 15, 2019

Spread fried bread with mixture and garnish with very thin strips of pimentos; set pimolas in center of each canapé.

From Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners A Book of Recipes by Elizabeth O. Hiller

This company wouldn’t be a snack — it wouldn’t even be a canape — for $4 trillion Alphabet or $5 trillion Apple.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Related: Festive party food hacks and the return of the Egg Master Dates with cheese and chorizo This is the most delicious canape I’ve ever eaten.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 2015

English celebrity chef Nigella Lawson was pushing a pea-guac-topped canape nearly 10 years ago.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 2, 2015

Thirty minutes before the first canape is delivered, though, she asks for no company in the kitchen: “I’m in concentrated mode,” she says.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2015

Emmert asked, popping another canape into his mouth.

From Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper

One friend would debut a play, naturally, and everyone would come back to my apartment afterward for cocktails and canapés on the fire escape.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

“Well, once I saw her, I knew we weren’t here just to eat canapés and see Corvettes. We had to help her.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026

Guests snacked on canapés and hors d’oeuvres before proceeding upstairs for the main course.

From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2025

That's not to say Mr Hunt won't be tempted to offer around a little platter of canapés, a taster of what could come in the spring.

From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2023

Later that afternoon, Barack and I floated around at the palace reception, eating canapés with the other G20 leaders and their spouses.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama


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