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Re:The terrorist inside my husband's brain by eridius on Saturday October 01, 2016 @09:29PM (#12620675)
I looked up entrée, and the Wikipedia page says that the American usage of the word is actually older than the contemporary French meaning of a dish served before the main course.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entr%C3%A9e

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Re:The terrorist inside my husband's brain by umanwizard on Sunday October 02, 2016 @01:01AM (#12621105)
How could that possibly make sense etymologically? (I'm genuinely curious). Given that "entrée" means "entrance"...
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Re:The terrorist inside my husband's brain by kgwgk on Saturday October 01, 2016 @10:01PM (#12620759)
The contemporary American meaning (the main course) doesn't seem really older than the contemporary French meaning.

> The word entrée maintained this meaning of a substantial meat course served after the soup/fish and before the roast in Britain, France, and America until well after the first World War.

http://languageoffood.blogspot.ch/2009/08/entree.html

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