antipasto
/ˌantɪˈpastəʊ
/noun (plural antipasti /ˌantɪˈpasti/)
(In Italian cooking) an hors d’oeuvre.On Saturday evening there was a banquet with antipasti, sausage, pasta, prosciutto, cheese, salad, dessert, and lots of wine....
- Even before it served its first antipasto, this reservations-free Italian joint had perfected the fundamentals of the BYOB genre.
- We had cocktails in the Eagle first then wine and antipasti in a cosy Italian cucina near Sadlers.
Origin
Italian, from anti- 'before' + pasto (from Latin pastus 'food').
Rhymes
- atrocious
- atrociously
- atrociousness
- atrocity
- at root
- atrophic
- atrophy
- atropine
- Atropos
- a trouble shared is a trouble halved
- at sea
- at second hand
- ATSIC
- at sign
- Atsina
- at sixes and sevens
- at someone's back
- at someone's beck and call
- at someone's command
- at someone's disposal
- at someone's expense
- at someone's feet
- at someone's pleasure
- at source
- at speed