Boston lettuce

American  

noun

1. a cultivated variety of lettuce having a rounded head of soft, crumpled leaves, used for salads.

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Example Sentences

But the recipe author for this lobster roll likes to mix things up by bringing in a lemony mayo, chives, and a bit of crisp Boston lettuce.

From Salon

I line them up on a slice of toasted bread and then build the sandwich up from there with Boston lettuce and extra crispy bacon.

From Washington Post

A salad of Boston lettuce with hazelnuts was overdressed, and a rectangular zucchini pizza was bland and sodden.

From New York Times

Essentially lobster salad wrapped inside Boston lettuce, they came across as bland and uninspired.

From New York Times

Quite a few years back the NYT featured a recipe for sole stuffed lettuce that used blanched Boston lettuce leaves to wrap around sole filets that had been stuffed with a duxelles.

From New York Times