Synonyms for salad

Grammar : Noun

Spell : sal-uh d

Phonetic Transcription : ˈsæl əd

Définition of salad

Origin : late 14c., from Old French salade (14c.), from Vulgar Latin *salata, literally "salted," short for herba salata "salted vegetables" (vegetables seasoned with brine, a popular Roman dish), from fem. past participle of *salare "to salt," from Latin sal (genitive salis) "salt" (see salt (n.)).
Dutch salade, German Salat, Swedish salat, Russian salat are from Romanic languages. Salad days, "time of youthful inexperience" (perhaps on notion of "green") is first recorded 1606 in Shakespeare and probably owes its survival, if not its existence, to him. Salad bar first attested 1940, American English.

noun dish of vegetables

Example sentences :

The lotus is a leguminous plant—so excellent for the salad—not for the roast.
Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

Any salad dressing that is preferred may be served with them.
Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

If the salad is large more oil and more juice should be used.
Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter

Fill your salad bowl with the crisp leaves, from which the flowerhead has been plucked.
Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter

Here is a salad that would have intrigued the palate of Lucullus, himself.
Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter

On the way back they stopped at the bridge and gathered cress for their salad.
Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter

In ten minutes' fast boiling they will be hard enough for salad.
Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie

They could all have lived on salad, would have treated themselves to tubfuls.
Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola

Stir them well together, then put in four spoonfuls of salad oil, and one spoonful of elder vinegar, and beat them up very smooth.
Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton

Salad herbs should be gathered in the morning, as fresh as possible, or they must be put into cold spring water for an hour.
Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton

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