Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large spoon with a long handle, made of some material, as wood, not affected by vinegar, oil, etc., used for stirring and mixing salads.
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Examples
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"Juanita" and "Kelly with the Green Necktie," and other suitable chants upon that stately instrument, the mouth-organ, and marched through the tea-room banging on a dishpan with the wooden salad-spoon.
The Innocents A Story for Lovers Sinclair Lewis 1918
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Most of our lady friends will receive a salad-spoon and fork from one or the other of us.
The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss Prentiss, George L 1882
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Most of our lady friends will receive a salad-spoon and fork from one or the other of us.
The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss George L. Prentiss 1859
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Have the lettuce dry in the salad bowl, put in the salad-spoon a saltspoonful of salt, a quarter one of pepper, and, holding it over the bowl, fill the spoon with oil; mix the salt and pepper well with it, and turn it over the salad; toss the salad lightly over and over till the leaves glisten, then add two (if for epicures, three or four) more spoonfuls of oil, then toss again over and over till every leaf is well coated with oil; then sprinkle in a saladspoonful of sharp vinegar.
Choice Cookery Catherine Owen
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