pl. Also 5 entremetes. [mod.Fr.: see ENTREMESS.]
1. Side dishes.
1475. Caxton, Jason, 119. Of the metes and entremetes … I will make no mencion.
1756. Connoisseur, No. 137 (1774), IV. 246. The duly adjusting the entremets.
1820. T. Mitchell, Aristoph., I. 207. Soup piquant and entremets.
1833. Marryat, P. Simple, xxxii. First and second course entremets.
† b. Used as sing. Obs. rare.
1739. Common Sense, II. 13. It is … easy to distinguish … the puny Son of a compound Entremets from the lusty Offspring of Beef and Pudding.
2. Antiq. A spectacular entertainment between the courses of a banquet.
1863. Kirk, Chas. Bold, I. 83. To these exhibitions—entremets as they were called.
