garnish

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A few young carrots may be boiled and placed round the dish as a garnish, and, when in season, green peas should always be served with this dish Time_.--5 hours.

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  1. transitive verb To enhance in appearance by adding decorative touches; embellish: a coat that was garnished with a fur collar.
  2. transitive verb To decorate (prepared food or drink) with small colorful or savory items: garnished the potatoes with parsley.
  3. transitive verb Law To garnishee.
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  • I had worked for hours that day making the family's favorite meal: fried chicken according to Aunt Minnie's classic recipe, pineapple jello salad from a feature in Woman's World, fresh green beans with almond slices (that garnish was my own idea), and, for dessert, peach cobbler. —  F ;SF; - vol 102 issue 03 - March 2002
  • You may only think of yogurt as a garnish, something to plop on top of a soup or stew and slowly stir in as you eat. —  ohdeedoh
  • The chili strips don't add much to the flavor (it's already quite spicy) and are purely for garnish -- as you can see, I left them out. —  Recipe Exchange
  • The garnish was a particularly appropriate stroke; its sharp, citrusy top note was a complementary hint of the slowly developing bitterness to come.
  • You can add thin-sliced seared tuna as a garnish, if you wish. —  South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com - South Florida Recipes
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English garnishen, from Old French garnir, garniss-, of Germanic origin; see wer-4 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English garnischen (also warnishen: see warnish), from Old French garniss-, stem of certain parts of garnir, guarnir, older warnir, French garnir (later D. garneren = German garniren = Danish garnere = Swedish garnera, trim) = Provencal garnir, guarnir = Old Spanish guarnis, Spanish Portuguese guarnecer = Italian guarnire, guernire (Middle Latin garnire, warnire), avert, defend, warn, fortify, garnish, of Old Low German origin: Anglo-Saxon wearnian, warnian, take care, warn, Old Saxon wernian, refuse, etc.: see warn. Hence Middle English garnison, English garrison.
  2. from garnish, v.
 

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