Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pickled relish made of various chopped vegetables and hot spices.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of pickle made up of various vegetables, chopped and seasoned with mustard and pungent spices.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A pickle of various vegetables with pungent species, -- originally made in the East Indies.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK A
yellow pickle made fromcauliflower , vegetablemarrow , and other vegetables, pickled withvinegar ,salt ,sugar , and spiced withmustard ,turmeric , and other spices. - noun US A
pickle , typically on a base of chopped green (unripe) tomatoes, but sometimes finely-choppedgherkins , and possibly including other vegetables.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun relish of chopped pickled cucumbers and green peppers and onion
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Foodwise, there are various good quality sandwiches (eg. home-cured honey roast ham; deep-fried cod cheek with lettuce and salad cream) available until 6pm, and, outside of that, bar snacks of the ploughman's (£7.50), potted crab, pork pie and homemade piccalilli variety.
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Its food sorting warehouse in Salisbury has the nostalgic feel of a 1980s harvest festival – you might find a crate of something unhelpful, such as piccalilli, next to a huge stash of longlife milk.
Bonuses in the City, but elsewhere in the UK foodbanks are booming | Zoe Williams 2011
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The last of the year's runner beans, a bit stringy now for serving as a vegetable, make cracking chutney if you treat them as you might a cauliflower, and make a piccalilli-style preserve with them.
Nigel Slater's runner bean chutney and simple pear tart recipes Nigel Slater 2010
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"You had to import Bird's custard, Branston pickle and piccalilli ... you had to buy PG Tips and then deal with the French milk."
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Each fall he looks forward to making old-fashioned piccalilli from the peppers and green tomatoes that keep coming until a hard frost.
One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010
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Galton produced a ham hock terrine with piccalilli and toasted spelt bread and Sat countered with ham, egg and peas.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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Mr. Farmerie tops thin, pink strips of raw Tasmanian sea trout with shichimi (a Japanese blend of chilies and spices) and a crunchy English piccalilli made from diced cauliflower, cucumber, onions and vinegar, and seasoned with chili, ginger and turmeric.
T.G.I.M., Really! 2007
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Galton produced a ham hock terrine with piccalilli and toasted spelt bread and Sat countered with ham, egg and peas.
At My Table 2007
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"He put it all on Hodgepile, " Jamie told me, loading piccalilli onto a slice of pie.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005
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There were small canning jars of deep amethyst-purple grape preserves, strawberry jam as dark and rich as garnets, and emerald green piccalilli.
Moon Dance Mariah Stewart 1999
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