Meanings
comparative more anchovied · superlative most anchovied
- Topped with or accompanied by anchovies.
The bacon is real, and nicely crisp, the parmesan is freshly grated, the greens are bouncy and tossed with a well-lemoned and -anchovied dressing.
2008 May 11, Anne DesBrisay, Ottawa Citizen, page A125 more examples
In about an hour and a half the talk is brought to an end; but our hospitable bursar will give us coffee and anchovied toast in his room, where the interrupted threads of conversation are resumed, and the commenced arguments are fought out.
1872 January, F. Arnold, “The Piccadilly Papers”, in London Society. An Illustrated Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature for the Hours of Relaxation, volume XXI, number CXXI, London: […], section “In an Oxford Common Room”, page 92, column 2Paul (Angostura) Pepe says the Jet Set has a new passion, a dance called “the Frug,” with cheese and anchovied pizzas to nibble on between flings, and plenty of Bitterspritzers.
1964 July 26, Jack Kofoed, “Amusements: Jack Kofoed’s Column: How Palance Was Convinced”, in The Miami Herald, 54th year, number 238, page 9-C, column 2[…] while Max and Madeleine float backwards and forwards from the kitchen into the yard, bringing bowls of Ritz biscuits, peanuts and anchovied eggs to accompany their drinks.
2002, Imogen Edwards-Jones, Shagpile, Flame, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 233A dinner-plate-sized Caesar salad ($6.95), tossed with lots of creamy anchovied dressing, and exceptionally creamy homemade mozzarella ($7.95, unfortunately with wan tomatoes) were two appetizers I would have been generally pleased with in an Italian restaurant.
2009 February 20, Elisa Ung, “Eating Out: The Stable in Ridgewood: A menu made up of myriad meats”, in The Record, page 16The zucchini was sliced in half and baked so that it was watery and tasteless, suffocated by a thick layer of heavily anchovied Caesar dressing and covered in a confusing chunky bread crumble, along with chives.
2019 August 10, Joanna Fox, “Are we having fun?”, in Montreal Gazette, page B2, column 2
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