condiment
something used to give a special flavor to food, as mustard, ketchup, salt, or spices.
Origin of condiment
1Other words from condiment
- con·di·men·tal, con·di·men·ta·ry, adjective
- non·con·di·ment, noun
- non·con·di·men·tal, adjective
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How to use condiment in a sentence
Check the bag regularly for any spilled food or lost condiments.
Is it noon yet? The best lunch box, bento boxes, lunch bags for adults | Florie Korani | August 12, 2021 | Popular-ScienceRepackaging condiments and other food products that you won’t finish on your trip is a pro move, too.
The cooking gear you need—and don’t need—for a camping trip | Purbita Saha | June 22, 2021 | Popular-Science“Hopefully, one of your other readers will have a similar story about deedle-dees, the one true name for the condiment,” wrote John, who now lives in Woodbine, Md.
There’s a word for that. It may just not be the word you learned growing up. | John Kelly | May 5, 2021 | Washington PostThe secret to the dish is its dipping sauce, which leans on a crab-fat paste widely used as a condiment in Pampanga.
4 mashup dishes worth trying in the D.C. area, including pulled-pork pupusas and Chinese burritos | Tim Carman | April 12, 2021 | Washington PostThe half jar of the condiment I’m inevitably left with after the holiday dinner inspired this sheet pan meal.
Horseradish and matzoh-crusted cod is an ideal sheet pan dinner to use up leftover Passover ingredients | Ellie Krieger | March 18, 2021 | Washington Post
At the same time, great sadness awaits those going into the lifestyle condiment business.
“Pop music has evolved into a lifestyle condiment,” sighs Steven Hyden at Grantland.
Best eaten with strong, spicy harissa as a condiment, to counter the fattiness of the meat.
To be sure, he was no cultural condiment but the meat of the matter itself.
Robert Hughes: A Fierce Critic and Powerful Voice Now Silenced | Simon Schama | August 10, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTNot so much a dish but a condiment suited for almost any meal, salsa verde would have to be one of the tastiest condiments.
Salt is the condiment to use with them, but sugar is allowable.
The Complete Bachelor | Walter GermainMrs. condiment, the housekeeper, therefore, greeted the "Cap'n" heartily on the threshold of the cottage when he arrived.
The Riddle of the Mysterious Light | Mary E. HanshewHe says he abstained principally from animal food; using it, if he used it at all, only as a condiment for his vegetables.
Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages | William Andrus AlcottSaffron is used as a pigment for the sectarian marks on the forehead of the orthodox Hindu and also as a condiment.
The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir | Sir James McCrone DouieThe daintiest condiment of all is the French mayonnaise sauce served with lettuce.
Margaret Brown's French Cookery Book | Margaret Brown
British Dictionary definitions for condiment
/ (ˈkɒndɪmənt) /
any spice or sauce such as salt, pepper, mustard, etc
Origin of condiment
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