salad fork
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of salad fork
First recorded in 1915–20
Example Sentences
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The salad fork, at least, a rigid sea serpent with four braided tongues for tines, did come from Dalí’s own drawing.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2023
The queen stopped and put down her salad fork.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2022
My wife is a lawyer, and she is really into rules, protocol, decorum, manners, structure, using a salad fork for salad, and other boring things like that.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2021
His mother had a dinner, and she was a Texan lady, I mean she had the whole dinner setup, and I was mortified—I had no idea there was a salad fork and a regular fork.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 4, 2016
Lizabeth kept up her chatter, showing how a princess would use a salad fork and how to break the bread into little pieces rather than tear at a whole slice with her teeths.
From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles
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