Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
tomato .
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Examples
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Tomato/tomata perhaps, but its too soon to write this one off quite yet (Saturday is this film's day of reckoning).
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Mah Daddehs hoam mayded apple an tomata chutney,a biig hunk ob gumburner cheez,mashed pertaters, mushee pees tew go wid pye an taterz.
awww its ok - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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A quantity of onion skins and tomata stalks, some rusty bacon rind, the skin of a lean rabbit, and some feathers that might have belonged either to a crow or a chicken, bestrewed the ground, affording intelligible hints as to a few of the heterogeneous materials already committed to the huge bowels of the kettle.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various
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_Ocelotl_ is _ocelot_; _Tomatl_ is _tomata_; _Chilli_ is the Spanish
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor
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"I used my farourite condiment, tomata sauce, with my beef; and _to all who are ignorant_ of this delicious vegetable I may venture to recommend its sauce, as at once both wholesome and savoury, if eaten with anything but cranberry tart or apple pie!"
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various
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Pepe Velasquez is a hard hitter, and if I had worn one of their pasteboard shakos, my head would have been split in two like a ripe tomata.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various
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Epicurean philanthropy, was evidently unconscious that "chops and tomata sauce" were already familiar to the British public from the immortal researches of Mr Pickwick!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various
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I was some wan in the ould days, an 'the bhoys was glad to see me -- all excipt Peg Barney wid a eye like a tomata five days in the bazar, an' a nose to match.
Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900
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I was some wan in the ould days, an 'the bhoys was glad to see me -- all excipt Peg Barney wid a eye like a tomata five days in the bazar, an' a nose to match.
Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Slices of pork, broiled, and tomata sauce, mashed potatoes; roast pheasants, bread sauce, and gravy.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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