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prix fixe

[ pree fiks; French pree feeks ]

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noun

, plural prix fixes [pree, , fiks, p, r, ee , feeks].

prix fixe

/ pri fiks /

a fixed price charged for one of a set number of meals offered on a menu Compare à la carte table d'hôte

Borrowed into English from French around 1880–85

In 1982, Roellinger saved the sea merchant's house from foreclosure by opening a table d'hôte (prix fixe restaurant) inside.

Did you ever find a Continental shopkeeper whose "prix fixe" might not be proved a lucus-a-nonentity?

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