appetiser

* Fennel-root, eaten raw, a favourite "appetiser" in Rome during the spring and autumn.

The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete ��mile Zola 1871

* Fennel-root, eaten raw, a favourite "appetiser" in Rome during the spring and autumn.

The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 3 ��mile Zola 1871

* Fennel-root, eaten raw, a favourite "appetiser" in Rome during the spring and autumn.

The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871

An "appetiser" before accessing the full menu of services

BBC Blog Network 2008

Despite cutting back on all our expenses and non essentials we are still trying to go out and eat when we can and we order fewer courses or share a dessert/appetiser but its important to help local businesses in any way you can.

Introducing OTB Economic Stimulus Dinners 2009

Was wondering if this was a mere appetiser for you as you work your way through the blockbusters.

Letting Go « Tales from the Reading Room 2010

"For dinner I order the shad-roe ravioli with apple compote as an appetiser and the meat loaf with chèvre and quail-stock sauce for an entrée".

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis 2010

A season will change before he finishes an appetiser.

The fussy eater: meals with my father Ariel Leve 2010

George Osborne and David Laws were that day serving up their palate-sharpening appetiser of spending cuts, by way of an amuse bouche for the banquet of public sector job losses to come, and I'd just paid £9 for one tiny merguez sausage.

Restaurant: Bar Boulud, London SW1 2010

If the banking crises of the last few years turn out to be just the appetiser, ahead of a full-blown sovereign debt crisis across the world -- beginning with Europe, followed by Japan and then USA -- maybe the consequences could precipitate the start of a Second Great Depression with several unintended consequences and unknown unknown trajectories.

DK Matai: Asymmetric Threat of a Second Great Depression? 2010