Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A salad of diced raw apples, celery, and walnuts mixed with mayonnaise.
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- noun countable and uncountable A type of
salad , consisting ofapple ,nuts (especiallywalnuts ),celery , andmayonnaise or a mayonnaise-based dressing.
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- noun typically made of apples and celery with nuts or raisins and dressed with mayonnaise
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After the Waldorf, -Astoria Hotel, New York City.]
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Named after the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, where the salad was first created in 1896.
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