à la carte

à la carte englanniksi

1. a la carte

1. Allowing selection from a fixed list of individually priced options shown on the menu.

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2. By ordering individually priced items from the menu.

3. 1925-29, (w) (translator), (w), ''(w)'', Part I, chapter xviihttps://www.mkgandhi.org/autobio/chap17.htm:

There were two divisions in the restaurants I used to visit. One division, which was patronized by fairly well-to-do people, provided any number of courses from which one chose and paid for ''à la carte'', each dinner thus costing from one to two shillings. The other division provided six-penny dinners of three courses with a slice of bread. In my days of strict frugality I usually dined in the second division.

4. allowing selection only from a fixed list of options, typically shown on a menu

5. with each dish priced

6. from any longlist of options, or even free choice, as opposed to a shortlist

7. (by extension) from any longlist of options, or even free choice, as opposed to a shortlist

8. (l), allowing selection only from a fixed list of options, typically shown on a menu

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11. (quote-book)|title= Skrivefest|passage=det var hvite duker og bukkende kelnere og à la carte på spansk|t=there were white tablecloths and bowing waiters and à la carte in Spanish

''det ble servert en storslagen à la cartemiddag''

a great à la carte dinner was served

12. (quote-book)|title=Peter van Heeren gjør hvad der falder ham ind|page=95|passage=jeg skal ærlig tilstaa at jeg foretrækker at spise à la carte|t=I must honestly admit that I prefer to eat à la carte

''spise à la carte''

eating à la carte

13. (l)