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salad bowl

American  

noun

  • salad bowls
    plural
  1. a large bowl in which a salad, especially a tossed salad, is served.

  2. a small bowl for individual servings of salad.


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Etymology

Origin of salad bowl

First recorded in 1765–75


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Others I spoke with will be getting their nutrition from cooked veggies and bringing those in, as opposed to ordering from a slop or salad bowl service.

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026

The thin-cut vegetables make it easy to nibble a bite at a time, rather than staring down a full head of lettuce in a salad bowl.

From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2026

"There were several weeks when everything went. I had no voice at one point and I was just coughing up industrial levels of mucus. barrages of it into a little Tupperware salad bowl."

From BBC ● May 4, 2024

“Salinas is the salad bowl of the world,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2022

Shayleen, with her shopping channel Chia Pets and her flying-saucer salad bowl.

From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor

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