Salad
['sæləd]
Definition
(noun.) food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing; usually consisting of or including greens.
Checked by Adelaide--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A preparation of vegetables, as lettuce, celery, water cress, onions, etc., usually dressed with salt, vinegar, oil, and spice, and eaten for giving a relish to other food; as, lettuce salad; tomato salad, etc.
(n.) A dish composed of chopped meat or fish, esp. chicken or lobster, mixed with lettuce or other vegetables, and seasoned with oil, vinegar, mustard, and other condiments; as, chicken salad; lobster salad.
Edited by Bridget
Definition
n. a preparation of raw herbs (lettuce endive chicory celery mustard and cress water-cress onions radishes tomatoes chervil &c.) cut up and seasoned with salt vinegar &c.: a dish of some kind of meat chopped seasoned and mixed with a salad.—ns. Salad-bur′net the common burnet used as a salad; Sal′ading herbs for salads: the making of salads; Sal′ad-oil olive-oil used in dressing salads; Sal′ad-plate a small plate for salad; Sal′ad-rock′et the garden rocket; Sal′ad-spoon a large and long-handled spoon for stirring and mixing salads made of wood or other material not affected by vinegar.—Salad days days of youthful inexperience.
Typist: Rodger
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of eating salad, foretells sickness and disagreeable people around you. For a young woman to dream of making it, is a sign that her lover will be changeable and quarrelsome.
Checker: Nicole
Examples
- Red Whisker made his salad (I wondered how they could eat it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- For dinner we had a woodcock with souffl?potatoes and pur閑 de marron, a salad, and zabaione for dessert. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Take care of that veal and ham--mind the lobsters--take the salad out of the cloth--give me the dressing. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Red Whisker pretended he could make a salad (which I don't believe), and obtruded himself on public notice. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I think they must have been taken out at random, for I am sure I tasted aniseed water, anchovy sauce, and salad dressing. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- There was also a capital salad,—the Rector was famous for his salads,—fruit, wine, cheese, and bread. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Now, Ma dear,' said Bella in due course, 'the salad's ready, and it's past supper-time. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- These gatherings are notoriously untruthful--in fact, there is a genial pleasure in not telling the truth about one's salad days in the socialist movement. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If people of my age WILL eat chicken-salad in the evening what are they to expect? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- It's a pity Laurie isn't here to help us, began Jo, as they sat down to ice cream and salad for the second time in two days. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The bread burned black; for the salad dressing so aggravated her that she could not make it fit to eat. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- We'll have lettuce and make a salad. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Sowed 'em, to come up small salad. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Use the chicken then, the toughness won't matter in a salad, advised his wife. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- He made the salad; and uncorked the Champagne; and carved the chickens; and ate and drank the greater part of the refreshments on the tables. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- There was also a capital salad,—the Rector was famous for his salads,—fruit, wine, cheese, and bread. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Here a general explosion of laughter cut short the 'history of salads', to the great surprise of the learned gentleman. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
Editor: Paula