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adjective, adverb
with a separate price for each dish offered on the menu: dinner à la carte.
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A la carte
is always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
a la carte
1826, from Fr. à la carte, lit. "by the card" (see card (n.)); in other words, "ordered by separate items." Distinguished from a table d'hôte, meal served at a fixed, inclusive price.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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