hors d'oeuvre

This succulent tasting smoke is the hors d'oeuvre to the main event.
Cette fumée succulente et goutûe est le “hors-d'oeuvre” de l'événement principal.
Don't sit on the hors d'oeuvre!
Mais pas sur nos hors-d'œuvre !
The hosts offered a prawn cocktail as an hors d'oeuvre for their dinner party.
Les hôtes ont proposé un cocktail de crevettes comme hors-d'œuvre lors de leur dîner.
We offer a five-course dinner menu that includes an hors d'oeuvre, appetizer, salad, main course, and dessert.
Nous proposons un menu dîner en cinq services comprenant un hors-d'œuvre, une entrée, une salade, un plat principal et un dessert.
It seems to me that this report is something of an appetiser - or hors d'oeuvre - for the Galileo report, which we will be considering next month in our Strasbourg part-session.
Il me semble que ce rapport s' apparente quelque peu à une mise en bouche, ou un hors d' uvre, en prélude au rapport Galileo, que nous examinerons le mois prochain lors de notre session partielle de Strasbourg.
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