Definitions
Etymologies
- From Peach Melba, a dish invented for Nellie Melba, an Australian opera singer. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In our cupboard, these were our staples: pimiento-stuffed olives, moldy jars of cocktail sauce, TV dinners, stale melba toast.”
“I will no doubt be in a better mood after a month in France and thus will be as boring as melba toast upon my return to Lake Chapala.”
“Warmer and more welcoming than bruschetta or melba toast, and more interesting than pastry, blinis are one of those things, like cheese straws, that's really only worth eating if you make them yourself.”
“So practical was her creation that it proved an instant hit with the fashionable hostesses of the decade: "Not since Escoffier invented peach melba has a dish so fast become so famous," Prue Leith has observed.”
“Then the melba toast ideologue decided to become the arbiter of what's funny and said to the caller, the black wife of a bi-racial couple, "If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry outside of your race!”
The Huffington Post: Tina Dupuy: Living in a 'Post-Racist' Society
“The proper way to make melba toast: cut off crust and then cut horizontally from the edge to make one slice into two very thing slices.”
The Huffington Post: Samantha Zalaznick: Reporting Back From The Food & Wine Classic in Aspen
“For breezing through Abu Dhabi, it's the one-shoulder caftan — a river of peach-melba polyester flooding down her like a slippery piano shawl ($325).”
“Its room service options, according to this excellent menu, include grilled double lamb chops, steak au poivre with cognac, and peach melba. mabelson@observer.com”
The Prisoner of Park Avenue! Neil Simon Buys Again in Ritz Tower
“The alpine swift Apus melba africanus and alpine meadow lizard Algyroides alleni are near endemic.”
“My bride and I sat across from each other, eating olive tapenade on melba crisps and table wafers, white cheddar cheese, salami, fresh sliced green, yellow and red peppers, and a date-walnut cake.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘melba’.
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recent new scrabble words
these came into effect from 2011
biobank, biftahs, biftah, bichirs, favicon, favicons, fansubs, bisom, fansub, fansites, fansite, fannying and 1465 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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Do I dare to eat a peach?
or Pandowdies: pie-like fruit desserts.
betty, clafoutis, cobbler, crisp, crumble, grunt, pandowdy, slump, melba, flan, crostatina, dump cake and 2 more...
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Antique Names: Female
These names were once in common use - at least somewhat. Some are coming back. Some are almost forgotten. I think they would
make lovely names. Well... most of them.araminta, abigail, agnes, biddie, celestia, celestine, celia, ceola, chloe, claire, clementine, cordie and 179 more...
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Thunderfoot's Words
lugubrious, salacious, vituperative, foist, foment, embolism, stygian, mellifluous, bildungsroman, shirk, crone, elide and 173 more...
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three
names i like and stuff like that.
julian, mabel, oscar, sofia, claudia, antwone, indigo, walter, saffron, poppy, ingrid, astrid and 57 more...
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Eponyms Spelling Bee List
need to learn these words!!!!!!!!!!!
praline, hosta, salmonella, tortoni, gardenia, zinnia, samaritan, jeremiad, shrapnel, boswell, Fletcherism, bandersnatch and 41 more...
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Short and Sweet
Five-letter maximun.
dell, knell, glen, dour, cant, chary, segue, quash, onus, cozen, quaff, aver and 59 more...
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test
Tweets
Looking for tweets for melba.
hernesheir A small city in SW Idaho, situated in the Snake River valley. Mar 15, 2011
bilby Melba in food names, e.g. peach melba, is after Dame Nellie Melba, an opera singer. I pass her house (now owned by her granddaughter) every time I go home to visit my parents. Apr 6, 2010
thunderfoot As in toast. Dec 6, 2006