Middle English Dictionary Entry
salade n.
Entry Info
| Forms | salade n. Also saled, salat. |
| Etymology | OF salade & ML salata. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A salad; (b) an herb or a vegetable used in a salad.
Associated quotations
a
- a1425(a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)115.78/1 : Salat: Take persel, sawge, garlec, chibolles, onyouns, leek, borage, myntes, porrettes, fenel, and toun cressis, rew, rosemarye, purslarye, laue, and waische hem clene.
- (1472) Paston (EETS)1.448 : I sende yow..ij pottys off oyle for saladys.
- a1500 Herb Salad in James Cat.Cai (Cai 414/631)487 : Herbes for a saled: letuse, parselan, persely, [etc.].
- a1500 Sln.Herb List (Sln 1201)75 : Herbes for a Salade: Buddus of Stanmarche, Vyolette flourez, Percely, [etc.].
b
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)35b/a : Escwe he also fro tosted þingez, rosted, fried, salatez acetose & sharp [Ch.(2): soure and scharpe metes; L salatis acetosis] as beþ garlekez, oynounz, piper, mustard, & al þingez brennyng blode.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)97 : Beware of saladis, grene metis, & of frutes rawe for þey make many a man haue a feble mawe.