Speaking about names, I still don't understand why Americans insist on calling main dishes as Entrées. An entrée is a starter, it's based on the verb entrer which is to enter. Drives me crazy...
Because the main dish makes the big entrance. I believe French cuisine used to use the same meaning and it diverged when people stopped always having a roast as well as an entrée.
When they used it as that meaning, the next dish was called the "relevé" which was a larger dish that replaced the entrée. So, the entrée wasn't the actual main dish.
