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  • noun Plural form of spinach.

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Examples

  • December 19, 2007 at 2:25 pm whor-derb reinforsmints heer: hot spinaches dip, chips and cheezstrawz, seleree stix, minee crabby caeks and a pishur ob marguhritas. muches holidae cheer to all cheez peeps!

    NOPE– - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007

  • I followed this by two little entrees of sweetbread and chicken; and the only brown thing which I permitted myself in the entertainment was a little roast of lamb, which I lay in a meadow of spinaches, surrounded with croustillons, representing sheep, and ornamented with daisies and other savage flowers.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • For the home garden, I believe that the Swiss chard beet is destined to be more popular, as it becomes known, than any of the spinaches.

    Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use 1930

  • The rockery, like a mountain, covered the entire grass plot; the tomb formed a cube in the midst of spinaches, the Venetian bridge a circumflex accent over the kidney-beans, and the summer-house beyond a big black spot, for they had burned its straw roof to make it more poetic.

    Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Gustave Flaubert 1850

  • I followed this by two little entrees of sweetbread and chicken; and the only brown thing which I permitted myself in the entertainment was a little roast of lamb, which I lay in a meadow of spinaches, surrounded with croustillons, representing sheep, and ornamented with daisies and other savage flowers.

    The History of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • Comerford said her staff is able to serve "good hearty spinaches," collard greens, kale and other vegetables fresh during the winter.

    The Seattle Times 2012

  • Then she would wilt over the piano like one of Celia’s spinaches when Tam Lin forgot to water the garden.

    House Of The Scorpion Nancy Farmer 2002

  • Then she would wilt over the piano like one of Celia’s spinaches when Tam Lin forgot to water the garden.

    House Of The Scorpion Nancy Farmer 2002

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