couvert

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.07 in modern English

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noun

"Earl Carroll's Theater-Restaurant, 6230 Sunset Blvd. Dinner from 7:30 to 11 p.m., no couvert; without dinner, admission charge."
"[…] the habit of hotel restaurants charging a couvert to residents, and of clubs charging table money to their own members."
"The couvert is a “cover charge” that is a prima facie charge for bread, which is brought to the table automatically in most places."

Borrowed from French couvert.

couverts (plural)

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