Definitions
A dish of mixed ingredients, often vegetables, served with dressing.
Word origin
From Middle English salade, from Old French salade, borrowed from Northern Italian salada, salata (compare insalata), from Vulgar Latin *salāta, from *salāre, from Latin saliō, from sal (“salt”). Vegetables were seasoned with brine or salty oil-and-vinegar dressings during Roman times.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“At various times and in different areas salads, compounded of meats, spices, tubers have been treated as of aphrodisiac value.”
“chicken salad”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer12 curated clues
01“Bowl of greens”5 letters
02“Cold dish of greens”5 letters
03“Cold dish with greens”5 letters
04“Cold dish with lettuce”5 letters
05“Cold leafy dish”5 letters
06“Crisp bowl with greens”5 letters
07“Greens in a bowl”5 letters
08“Greens with dressing”5 letters
09“Leafy dish”5 letters
10“Leafy side dish”5 letters
11“Lettuce dish”5 letters
12“Mixed greens dish”5 letters
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