salad
noun/ˈsæl.əd/ · /ˈsæl.ɪt/
Etymology PIE word *sḗh₂l From Middle English salade, from Old French salade, borrowed from Northern Italian salada, salata (compare insalata), from Vulgar Latin *salāta, from *salāre, from Latin saliō, from sal (“salt”). Vegetables were seasoned with brine or salty oil-and-vinegar dressings during Roman times.
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A food made primarily of one or more raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.
- Lafeu. ’Twas a good lady, ’twas a good lady: we may pick a thousand salads ere we light on such another herb. Clown. Indeed, sir, she was the sweet marjoram of the salad, or rather, the herb of grace.c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
- At various times and in different areas salads, compounded of meats, spices, tubers have been treated as of aphrodisiac value.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 213:
2 more examples
- chicken salad
- We'd like a couple of cheese salads and two Pepsis, please.
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Especially, such a mixture whose principal base is greens, most especially lettuce.
- romaine salad
- kale salad
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One or more raw vegetables of the kind used in salads.
- sandwiches comprising a meat, a cheese, a salad, and a condiment
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Idiomatic Any varied blend or mixture.
- Rebuffed by the Arabs and then the Iranians for trying to be part of them and their societies, Pakistan is just a hotchpotch salad of people supposedly bound together by the myth of Muslim 'Ummah'.2021 October 16, Gurvinder Singh, “Why Pakistan will fail”, in Guruwonder:
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UK Lettuce.
- I prefer a little salad on my burger.
- Derived terms
55 terms
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- taramosalata
- Hyponyms
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