also entree
(~s)
1.
If you have an ~ to a social group, you are accepted and made to feel welcome by them.
She had an entree into the city’s cultivated society.
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2.
At restaurants or formal dinners, the ~ is the main course, or sometimes a dish before the main course.
Dinner features a hot ~ of chicken, veal, or lamb.
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