fruit salad

noun

1. a cold dish consisting of various types of small or cut-up fruit, usually served as a dessert or first course.

fruit salad

noun

1. a dish consisting of sweet fruits cut up and served in a syrup: often sold canned

Word History and Origins

Origin of fruit salad¹

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

I’ve never particularly liked fruit salads, but after reading her recent essay on the subject, I want to try some.

From Outside Online

Serve with labneh, vanilla ice cream, or toss into the best fruit salad of all time.

From Eater

This fruit salad screams summer and looks beautiful on the plate, tooIngredients 2 Tbsp.

From Outside Online

Also, just compare it to Barney's “I love you” or The Wiggles' “Fruit Salad.”

From The Daily Beast

Cain kept insisting the barbs were “apples and oranges,” turning his answers into fruit salad.

From The Daily Beast

Fruit Salad—Cut fruit is sweet, refreshing, and low in calories.

From The Daily Beast

We simply mixed all the babies up, just as you would mix up a delicious fruit salad.

From Project Gutenberg

In case a fruit salad is selected, it is often made to serve for both the salad and the dessert course.

From Project Gutenberg

If the dressing is to be used for fruit salad, lemon juice may be used in the place of vinegar.

From Project Gutenberg

Put them together, place on salad plates garnished with lettuce, and serve with the fruit-salad dressing.

From Project Gutenberg

In case canned pineapple is used for the salad, the juice from the fruit may be utilized in making a fruit-salad dressing.

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