salad
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əd noun
1.
a usually cold dish consisting of vegetables, as lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumbers, covered with a dressing and sometimes containing seafood, meat, or eggs.
2.
any of various dishes consisting of foods, as meat, seafood, eggs, pasta, or fruit, prepared singly or combined, usually cut up, mixed with a dressing, and served cold: chicken salad; potato salad.
3.
any herb or green vegetable, as lettuce, used for salads or eaten raw.
4.
South Midland and Southern U.S. greens.
5.
any mixture or assortment: The usual salad of writers, artists, and musicians attended the party.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a dish of raw vegetables, such as lettuce, tomatoes, etc, served as a separate course with cold meat, eggs, etc, or as part of a main course |
| 2. | any dish of cold vegetables or fruit: potato salad; fruit salad |
| 3. | any green vegetable used in such a dish, esp lettuce |
| [C15: from Old French salade, from Old Provençal salada, from salar to season with salt, from Latin sal salt] | |
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Word Origin & History
salad
1390, from O.Fr. salade (14c.), from V.L. *salata, lit. "salted," short for herba salata "salted vegetables" (vegetables seasoned with brine, a popular Roman dish), from fem. pp. of *salare "to salt," from L. sal (gen. salis) "salt" (see salt). Du. salade, Ger. Salat, Swed.
salat, Rus. salat are from Romanic languages. Salad days, "time of youthful inexperience" (on notion of "green") is first recorded 1606 in Shakespeare. Salad bar first attested 1976, Amer.Eng.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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salad
any of a wide variety of dishes that fall into the following principal categories: green salads; vegetable salads; salads of pasta, legumes, or grains; mixed salads incorporating meat, poultry, or seafood; and fruit salads. Most salads are traditionally served cold, although some, such as German potato salad, are served hot
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Example sentences
The huge ape, unperturbed, pauses for a look down and then grabs another handful from his salad bowl environment.
Trout roe provides the perfect pop of color atop blini layered with simple egg salad and thinly sliced salmon.
The meal service had an option of pizza or a steak and potato salad.
The salad fork, which will usually be the third used, is thus laid nearest to the plate.
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