Definitions
Etymologies
- From French mescler ("to mix"). (Wiktionary)
- Provençal mesclom, mesclumo, mixture, from Vulgar Latin *misculāre, to mix thoroughly; see meddle. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The mesclun is a staple in our house, as is the goat cheese.”
“Second crop carrots, second crop peas, and the mesclun are all poking their heads up, too.”
“Dietitian's tip: The mix of gourmet salad greens called mesclun may include oakleaf lettuce, arugula (rocket), frisee, mizuna, mache, radicchio and sorrel.”
“Mr. Hicks also has a way with vegetables: The JWF Salad $9 is a mix of shredded carrots, bits of cauliflower and mesclun tossed with a mustardy dressing.”
“Lettuce: pelletized seeds make planting individual heads a breeze, or sow mesclun mix where the seed is just scattered in a wide swath over the soil”
The Huffington Post: Mary Ann Esposito: The Ten Easiest Vegetables To Plant in Your Garden
“I'm going to plant some tomatoes next weekend in large pots that I can move around to make sure they get as much sun as possible, but for now we are sticking with herbs and lettuce -- and this is the first big salad that we've made with our own mesclun.”
“Going to the farmer's market and buying an organic mesclun mix is not enough.”
The Huffington Post: Alison Rose Levy: How To Survive In An Age Of Crisis
“If you must make suggestions, a few I recommend are roasted fall veggies, crusty french bread with an assortment of cheeses, mashed potatoes, mesclun salad with cranberries and blue cheese, quiches, and other comfort food goodness.”
The Huffington Post: Courtney Cachet: The Fabulous Fall Harvest Party Made Simple
“Angus with gruyere, onion marmalade and mesclun greens and fries.”
“Grocery chains now sell mesclun and arugula, "local" and "organic" are everyday terms and farmers markets and community gardens exist in the most unlikely places.”
The Wall Street Journal: Baked Salmon With Green Aioli and Romano Beans
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mesclun’.
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Foodie
As much fun to say as they are to eat.
blueberry, cider, almond, apricot, asparagus, banana, fudge, foldover, flapjacks, filbert, fig, biscuit and 217 more...
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bearfax december 2006
opulent, spot, kaffee, sift, cedar, pushy, buckwheat, zydeco, chemeketa, hood, blood, food and 107 more...
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the omnibus
preponderance, idioglossia, acumen, heteronym, flux, anacoluthon, metonymy, impetus, constellation, exegesis, revelatory, cloistered and 877 more...
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Having: C; m; e
Goodies pulled from a list I've compiled of most-every word having these letters in common — It's going take to take a long, long time to actually get through (and I may want to extend it lat...
chamber, chimney, compesce, imperch, ipom�ic, lambency, premier cru, recumbence, simnelcake, succumbence, umbeschew, almacle and 631 more...
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kawy's list
subtrist, tricoteuse, undisonant, apricity, apricity, nudiustertian, snaste, chrestomath, chrestomath, velleity, zugzwang, muntin and 106 more...
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common words
mei- root words, a changing mixture
common, communion, community, meatus, conge, permeate, irremeable, mew, molt, mutate, commute, permute and 87 more...
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Exotic Color Names
Single-word names of colors.
bisque, chartreuse, cornsilk, gainsboro, roseate, verdigris, carmine, dahlia, vermilion, puce, cinereal, muslin and 41 more...
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Gastronomy
Tweets
Looking for tweets for mesclun.
madmouth I find the term young lettuces surprisingly sensuous Sep 22, 2009
super-kawy A mixture of young leafy greens, often including young lettuces, used as salad. Sep 22, 2009