Meaning of a la carte | Babel Free

Definitions

By ordering individually priced items from the menu.

not-comparable

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Examples

“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 of three courses with a slice of bread. In my days of strict frugality I usually dined in the second division.”

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