(In French hors d'oeuvre / hors d'Å“uvre is both singular and plural.)
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Hors d'oeuvres is the English plural, hors d'oeuvre is the
English singular. Hors d'œuvre is the French plural and the French
singular.
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hors d'oeuvre
(ôr dûrv)
n.pl.hors d'oeuvres (ôr dûrvz) or hors d'oeuvre - An appetizer served before a meal.
[French hors d'uvre : hors, outside + de, of + uvre, (the main) work.]
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The French spelling hors d'oeuvre (hors d'Å“uvre) is both singular and plural - the determiner before it tells if it is one (un) or more than one (les).
In English, hors d'oeuvre is singular and hors d'oeuvres is plural.
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The English spelling of the French term (an appetizer) is hors d'oeuvre (singular) and hors d'oeuvres (plural).
Both the singular and plural in French are the same : Hors d'œuvre .