prix fixe

noun

: a complete meal offered at a fixed price
also : the price charged

Examples of prix fixe in a Sentence

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The neighborhood restaurant located in the heart of Butchertown is serving a three course prix fixe dinner. Gege Reed, Louisville Courier Journal, 16 Dec. 2025 This restaurant features a prix fixe menu. Carly Neil, USA Today, 13 Dec. 2025 Christmas Day will be a three-course, $75 prix fixe menu of corn chowder or Caesar salad, gnudi or prime rib and peppermint chocolate cream pie. Molly Davis, Nashville Tennessean, 12 Dec. 2025 The Abbey Resort The resort on the shores of Geneva Lake will offer a Christmas Eve prix fixe dinner and a Christmas Day brunch buffet in the 240° West Restaurant. Elaine Rewolinski, jsonline.com, 11 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for prix fixe

Word History

Etymology

French, fixed price

First Known Use

1851, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of prix fixe was in 1851

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“Prix fixe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prix%20fixe. Accessed 20 Dec. 2025.

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