salad
/ˈsæl.əd/ noun A1- A food consisting principally of raw vegetables (especially greens, e.g. lettuce), other savoury ingredients (typically cooked), fruit, or confectionary; often involving two or more such ingredients mixed together, with larger items cut or torn into small pieces, and usually with a dressing or binding; usually served cold or at room temperature, as a dish or savoury sandwich filling. · We'd like a couple of cheese salads and two Pepsis, please.
- One or more raw vegetables of the kind used in salads; typically greens (especially lettuce). · sandwiches comprising a meat, a cheese, a salad, and a condiment· I prefer a bit of salad on my burger.
- Any mixture of different things. · word salad
Plural salads
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“I just wish I was a rich American and could spend my summer at a hotel and wear jewels and low-necked dresses and have ice cream and chicken salad every blessed day.
“Can I be deceived?” he murmured, as he stepped into the oblong and grated vehicle which they call “the salad basket.”
The hotel's kitchen uses it in desserts and salad dressings, and guests can buy small jars at the front desk.
She pointed to the chicken salad and asked, “Is there peanut in this?”
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