salad

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And people can say all they want, but a salad is a salad, and McDonalds seems to really try to use fresh produce and local suppliers as well.

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  1. noun A dish of raw leafy green vegetables, often tossed with pieces of other raw or cooked vegetables, fruit, cheese, or other ingredients and served with a dressing.
  2. noun The course of a meal consisting of this dish.
  3. noun A cold dish of chopped vegetables, fruit, meat, fish, eggs, or other food, usually prepared with a dressing, such as mayonnaise.
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  • This salad is a great side dish, but even better as a pizza topping. —  Breaking News: CBS News
  • This salad is a wonderful way to start a meal, and is light refreshing and easy to make.
  • But check out this flabbergastingly deceptive exchange between Couric and Palin on the Early Show (yes, I know it's also a word salad -- we expect that now -- it's the active deception that matters here): —  amor mundi
  • A few of the dishes that will be served are "bat wings," "witch fingers" and a "graveyard toss," which is what they call the salad. —  Marshall Democrat-News Headlines
  • The food is freshly prepared good portions and excellent quality. the price of a meal ranges from £3.50 to £6.95 for steak the salad is always the freshest that we ever eat out even the coleslaw is homemade. there is a nice atmosphere Mar 29th, 2008 at 9: 03 pm —  Express & Star
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  1. Middle English salade, from Old French, possibly from Old Provençal salada, from Vulgar Latin *salāta, from feminine past participle of *salāre, to salt, from Latin sāl, salt; see sal- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also sallad, sallet; from Middle English salade (= Dutch salade = Middle High German salāt, German salat = Danish salat = Swedish salat, salad), from Old French (and F.) salade, from Old Italian salata = Portuguese salada, a salad (cf. Spanish ensalada = Italian insalata, a salad); literally ‘salted,’ from Middle Latin salata, feminine of salatus (later Spanish Portuguese salado = Italian salato), salted. pickled (cf. Italian salato, salt meat), past participle of salare, salt, from Latin sal, salt: see salt.
 

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