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ala carte

ala carte is the misspelling of à la carte.

Meaning of à la carte

Adverb

à la carte (not comparable)

  1. By ordering individually priced items from the menu.
    • 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...1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xvii
    Antonyms:
    table d'hôte

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Questions about ala carte

What is ala carte the misspelling of?
Ala carte is the misspelling of à la carte.

Words near ala carte in the dictionary

  1. Al-Taif
  2. al-Thaqalayn
  3. Al-Ubayyid
  4. Al-Yasa
  5. ala
  6. ala carte
  7. ala mode
  8. ala spuria
  9. Ala.
  10. Alaafin
  11. Alaafins

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