à la russe

adjective

Of a dinner service, having courses already cut and handed out to individual guests.

OriginFrench à la russe →
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Meanings

adjectiveà la russe (not comparable)

alternative a la russe

  1. not comparableOf a dinner service, having courses already cut and handed out to individual guests.

Origin

  1. Frenchà la russe“in the Russian manner”
  2. Englishà la russe

Borrowed from French à la russe (“in the Russian manner”).

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Chicago

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