couvert
See also: Couvert
English
Noun
couvert (plural couverts)
- cover charge
- 1941, Federal Writers' Project, Los Angeles: A Guide to the City and Its Environs
- Earl Carroll's Theater-Restaurant, 6230 Sunset Blvd. Dinner from 7:30 to 11 p.m., no couvert; without dinner, admission charge.
- 1965, The Spectator
- […] the habit of hotel restaurants charging a couvert to residents, and of clubs charging table money to their own members.
- 2010, Karen Torme Olson, Frommer's Croatia
- The couvert is a “cover charge” that is a prima facie charge for bread, which is brought to the table automatically in most places.
- 1941, Federal Writers' Project, Los Angeles: A Guide to the City and Its Environs
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: cou‧vert
French
Etymology
From Old French covert, from Latin coopertus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ku.vɛʁ/
audio (file)
Adjective
couvert (feminine singular couverte, masculine plural couverts, feminine plural couvertes)
Derived terms
- sous couvert de
Verb
couvert m (feminine singular couverte, masculine plural couverts, feminine plural couvertes)
- past participle of couvrir
Further reading
- “couvert” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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