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[Ben Zimmer]

"crudités" = 'a traditional French hors-d'œuvre of mixed raw vegetables'
(OED2 1960)

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The Bystander, Apr. 17, 1940, p. i (British Newspaper Archive)
"London Nights: Wartime Dinner, Dance and Cabaret" by Edax
"Crudités" is the name of the dish of raw vegetables offered as hors
d'œuvre to the wise and the healthy. Radishes, pimentos, mushrooms, baby
artichokes.
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The Tatler and Bystander, May 21, 1941, p. 301 (British Newspaper Archive)
"Round the Restaurants" by Peter Hume
Then there are "Les Crudites" composed of fresh raw vegetables, lettuce,
tomato, cucumber and so on.
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Vogue, Oct. 15, 1941, p. 92 (ProQuest)
"People and Ideas: Ten Questions on Unoccupied France"
Dinner started with soup, a thin, watery shadow of the thick rich dish that
had been the classic evening meal in our part of the country, or with the
hors-d'œuvres now called _les crudités_ -- raw carrots, radishes, fruit,
and perhaps olives.
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--bgz

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