dessert knife

noun

a knife used during the dessert course, usually somewhat smaller than a dinner knife.

Origin of dessert knife

First recorded in 1785–95

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Ted lifted his brown eyes to hers, but she sat with eyes downcast, playing with her dessert-knife.
Mammon and Co. | E. F. Benson
He stabbed sharply with the butt of a dessert knife on the dessert plate which had just been placed before him.
If Winter Comes | A.S.M. Hutchinson
His pipe not drawing, he was preparing to dig it with the point of a dessert-knife, when Doggie interposed hurriedly.
The Rough Road | William John Locke
“You see how it is,” said he to the young blonde, gesticulating with his dessert knife.
Friars and Filipinos | Jose Rizal
"Yes, I will go," I cried, seizing a dessert-knife which was on my bureau.
The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, Complete | Madame La Marquise De Montespan

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