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muse-bouche

muse-bouche is the alternative form of amuse-bouche.

Meaning of amuse-bouche

Noun

amuse-bouche (plural amuse-bouches)

  1. A bite-sized hors d'oeuvre or appetizer that is served before a meal.
    Synonyms:
    preappetizer

Forms of muse-bouche

pluralmuse-bouches

Origin of muse-bouche

Rebracketing of amuse-bouche as a *muse-bouche, otherwise a rebracketing of l'amuse-bouche as la *muse-bouche (compare the similarly-construed derivation of ammunition from French la munition).

Questions about muse-bouche

What is muse-bouche the alternative form of?
Muse-bouche is the alternative form of amuse-bouche.

Words near muse-bouche in the dictionary

  1. musculus
  2. musculus papillaris
  3. muscuranic
  4. MUSD
  5. muse
  6. muse-bouche
  7. muse-bouches
  8. musea
  9. museal
  10. musealisation
  11. musealist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: muse-bouche (page history and authors); amuse-bouche (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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