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croque-en-doigts [1 record]

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Record 1 2006-05-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Industries
  • Restaurant Menus
DEF

Food intended to be picked up with the fingers and eaten.

OBS

The term "finger food" is a general term used to refer to chicken fingers, deep-fried zucchini, battered shrimp, etc., as well as other types of food eaten with the fingers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
  • Menus (Restauration)
DEF

Mets qui [...] se mangent avec les doigts.

OBS

croque-en-doigts : L'équivalent basé sur le terme «croque-en-bouche» relevé dans le Larousse gastronomique, 1984, page 336.

OBS

Pluriel : des amuse-gueules ou des amuse-gueule.

OBS

amuse-gueules (pl.) : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

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