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sallad

sallad is the obsolete form of salad.

Meaning of salad

Noun

salad (countable and uncountable, plural salads)

  1. 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.
    • 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]...
  2. 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
  3. (idiomatic) Any mixture of different things.
    • word salad

Forms of sallad

pluralsallads

Questions about sallad

What is sallad the obsolete form of?
Sallad is the obsolete form of salad.

Words near sallad in the dictionary

  1. Salkeld
  2. Salkelds
  3. Salla
  4. Salla disease
  5. sallabad
  6. sallad
  7. sallads
  8. sallampore
  9. sallampores
  10. Sallands
  11. Sallapadan

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