Couvert
Origin
French
Full definition of couvert
Noun
couvert
(plural couverts)- cover charge
- 1941, Federal Writers' Project, Los Angeles: A Guide to the City and Its EnvironsEarl Carroll's Theater-Restaurant, 6230 Sunset Blvd. Dinner from 7:30 to 11 p.m., no couvert; without dinner, admission charge.
- 1965, The Spectator... the habit of hotel restaurants charging a couvert to residents, and of clubs charging table money to their own members.
- 2010, Karen Torme Olson, Frommer's CroatiaThe couvert is a “cover charge†that is a prima facie charge for bread, which is brought to the table automatically in most places.----