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Cobb salad

Cobb salad noun: a salad consisting of iceberg lettuce, watercress, endive and Romaine lettuce with tomato, bacon, chicken, hard-boiled egg, avocado, chives, Roquefort cheese and a red wine vinaigrette.

Noun

Cobb salad (plural Cobb salads)

  1. (US) A salad consisting of iceberg lettuce, watercress, endive and Romaine lettuce with tomato, bacon, chicken, hard-boiled egg, avocado, chives, Roquefort cheese and a red wine vinaigrette.
    • She ignores: olives, blue cheese, boiled eggs, bacon and avocado – in other words, all of the parts of the Cobb salad that, technically speaking, make it a Cobb salad.2010, Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad, Corsair (2011), page 180

Forms of Cobb salad

pluralCobb salads

Origin of Cobb salad

Developed by Robert Cobb of the Brown Derby restaurant circa 1937.

Questions about Cobb salad

What does Cobb salad mean?
Cobb salad means a salad consisting of iceberg lettuce, watercress, endive and Romaine lettuce with tomato, bacon, chicken, hard-boiled egg, avocado, chives, Roquefort cheese and a red wine vinaigrette.
What part of speech is Cobb salad?
Cobb salad is a noun.
What is the plural of Cobb salad?
The plural of Cobb salad is Cobb salads.

Words near Cobb salad in the dictionary

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  3. Cobaw
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  6. Cobb salad
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  8. Cobb syndrome
  9. Cobb's disease
  10. Cobbadah
  11. Cobban

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