garden salad

noun

: a tossed salad made with vegetables that are commonly grown in a garden (such as lettuce, tomato, and cucumber)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Add chunked, baked sweet potatoes to a garden salad. Health, 6 Mar. 2023 Guests will dig into brunch delights including fresh garden salad, omelets, an assortment of muffins, teriyaki salmon and specialty chicken. Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2022 Sides: soup, green beans, mac and cheese, French fries, coleslaw, cheesy breadsticks, garden salad. Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 1 Mar. 2022 Avon Place is sponsoring the lunch, which features loaded baked potato soup, garden salad and ambrosia salad for dessert. Carol Kovach, cleveland, 8 Feb. 2022 It's served with garden salad or soup of the day and choice of apple pie or pumpkin pie for dessert. Sue Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 18 Nov. 2021 Dole Fresh Vegetables is recalling bags of garden salad sold in 10 states after a sample tested positive for listeria monocytogenes, an organism that can cause serious and potentially deadly infections. Kate Gibson, CBS News, 1 Nov. 2021 Dole announced the recall after discovering a garden salad sample that tested positive for listeria in a random sample test from the Department of Agriculture in Georgia. Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2021 On the menu was a garden salad dressed with a light vinaigrette followed by lasagne de legumes, a simple and savory fare. Eliseé Browchuk, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2021 See More

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Word History

First Known Use

1831, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of garden salad was in 1831

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“Garden salad.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/garden%20salad. Accessed 27 Mar. 2023.

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