Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small plate intended for salad; especially, such a plate of an unusual shape, intended for use with the large dinner-plate for meat or game, and designed not to take up much room on the table.

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  • I inserted the salad-plate sized sedum first, anchoring it at the top of the vase, and then worked around it, adding marigolds next, followed by a big forked branch of winged elm.

    The Herald | HeraldOnline.com - Front 2009

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