Cobb salad

noun

A salad consisting of iceberg lettuce, watercress, endive and Romaine lettuce with tomato, bacon, chicken, hard-boiled egg, avocado, chives, Roquefort cheese and a red wine vinaigrette.

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Meanings

nounCobb salad (plural Cobb salads)

plural Cobb salads

  1. USA salad consisting of iceberg lettuce, watercress, endive and Romaine lettuce with tomato, bacon, chicken, hard-boiled egg, avocado, chives, Roquefort cheese and a red wine vinaigrette.

    She ignores: olives, blue cheese, boiled eggs, bacon and avocado – in other words, all of the parts of the Cobb salad that, technically speaking, make it a Cobb salad.

    2010, Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad, Corsair (2011), page 180

Origin

Developed by Robert Cobb of the Brown Derby restaurant circa 1937.

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 科布沙拉
  • 科布沙拉 (Kēbù shālā)salad
Finnish Cobb-salaatti
  • Cobb-salaattisalad
French salade Cobb
  • salade Cobbsalad
Russian сала́т Кобб
  • сала́т Кобб (salát Kobb)salad
Spanish ensalada Cobb
  • ensalada Cobbsalad
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Chicago

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