canapé

[ kan-uh-pee, -pey; French ka-na-pey ]

/ ˈkæn ə pi, -ˌpeɪ; French ka naˈpeɪ /

a thin piece of bread or toast or a cracker spread or topped with cheese, caviar, anchovies, or other savory food.

Furniture. a sofa of 18th-century France, made in any of several forms, often with matching chairs.

Bridge. a style of bidding in which short suits are bid before long ones.

Origin of canapé

1885–90; < French: literally, a covering or netting, orig. for a bed (see canopy), by extension for a piece of bread

canapé canopy

An oxeye daisy, p. 31, may be placed in center of canape, in the wreath of parsley.

The Laurel Health Cookery |Evora Bucknum Perkins
It consists of oysters, a canape, a fruit cocktail, grapefruit or something else of the same kind.

Book of Etiquette, Volume 2 |Lillian Eichler Watson
She and Peter were in the pantry, deep in the manufacture of a certain sort of canape.

Sisters |Kathleen Norris

canapé

/ (ˈkænəpɪ, -ˌpeɪ, French kanape) /

a small piece of bread, toast, etc, spread with a savoury topping

(in French cabinetwork) a sofa

C19: from French: sofa