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- noun US Cooked
land snails, usually served as anappetizer orstarter
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Old Town bistro will be offering a select menu featuring favorites from its regular menu such as escargots, Brie tart, and rack of lamb as well as New Year's specials.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Her menu aims higher than the word bistro suggests but includes many dishes you might expect such as escargots, onion soup, bouillabaisse, daube of beef, rack of lamb with thyme-scented jus and tarte Tatin.
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Here diners are treated to European classics such as escargots in garlic butter, moules marinière, steak frites, and paella, all at shamefully reasonable prices.
unknown title 2009
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"escargots" a traditional Lebanese dish, and we're going to sue the hell out of the French for robbing us.
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Lunch menu €58; tasting menus €80, €120 and €150; à la carte €90Since most of Paris's storied brasseries are now owned by corporate chains and serve wiltingly mediocre food, it's a pleasure to head to one of the last remaining independent ones in a quiet corner of the silk-stocking 16th arrondissement for a fine feed of such well-prepared French classics as onion soup, escargots, sole meunière, steak tartare, roast lamb and other Gallic standards.
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It was particularly known for cashew butter escargots.
Mary Rose: Melting Pot Musings Mary Rose 2011
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Eventually, during a trip to Paris, I was coerced by the garlicky perfume emerging from my brother's appetizer of escargots as the French call the edible land-based ones, and I caved.
Snails Quicken Their Culinary Pace Charlotte Druckman 2012
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It was particularly known for cashew butter escargots.
Mary Rose: Melting Pot Musings Mary Rose 2011
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When I was a baby I liked to eat escargots with butter and garlic, avocado, brains and sardines.
Karine Bakhoum: Why Put Off for Tomarrow What You Can Eat Today? Karine Bakhoum 2011
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When I was a baby I liked to eat escargots with butter and garlic, avocado, brains and sardines.
Karine Bakhoum: Why Put Off for Tomarrow What You Can Eat Today? Karine Bakhoum 2011
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