canapé
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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
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
But that description misses the sneaky, subversive wit that pierces every scene of this movie like a toothpick in a canapé.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2016
A group of gilded chairs were the only furnishings, except for a gilded canapé between two French windows draped with cinnamon-colored hangings.
From The Dust Flower by Hibberd V. B. (Hibberd Van Buren) Kline
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
The cut to Graham Coxon munching a canape takes the gloss off somewhat, but no matter, here’s Gary Oldham to join the remembrance.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 24, 2016
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
It consists of oysters, a canape, a fruit cocktail, grapefruit or something else of the same kind.
From Book of Etiquette, Volume 2 by Lillian Eichler Watson
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
Vogler suggests that the pandemic might see an increase in finger food: canapés, cheese straws, stuffed potatoes, things that can be enjoyed without sharing crockery.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2022
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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