Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Japanese noodle made with buckwheat flour.
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- noun A
Japanese buckwheat noodle
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Japanese use the term soba to describe any thin noodle that’s not udon.
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The cold soba is the best — it includes dipping sauce, scallions, wasabi, which is turned into a soup at the end of yr meal.
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It's the main ingredient in Japanese soba noodles, and some Eastern Europeans eat buckwheat grouts -- the hulled seeds of the buckwheat plant -- in a side dish called kasha.
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Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal The cold soba, which is served on a bamboo mat with a dipping sauce that can be flavored with wasabi and scallions, is shown here.
East Village Soba 2010
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But the soba, which is handmade using organic buckwheat flour, is the main draw.
East Village Soba 2010
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But the soba, which is handmade using organic buckwheat flour, is the main draw.
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Cold soba, which is served on a bamboo mat with a dipping sauce, is the best way to appreciate the noodles.
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And if you want to take it out for a test drive before committing, try the goma dare, a coarse-grained inaka soba served cold with sesame sauce.
No Soba for You! 2008
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Menu hari itu selain Dorayaki ada Omeraisu, nasi goreng dibungkus omelet, trus ada Yakisoba alias soba goreng.
mayoineko Diary Entry mayoineko 2007
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I know that there are Asian noodles called soba that are made from buckwheat flour buckwheat is a fruit related to rhubarb.
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