salad plate
noun
a small plate used chiefly for serving an individual portion of salad.
a selection of salad ingredients served cold, often on a bed of lettuce.
Origin of salad plate
1First recorded in 1880–85
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How to use salad plate in a sentence
If salad is to be served next, put down a salad-plate in place of the dinner-plate removed.
The Expert Maid-Servant | Cristine Terhune HerrickArrange the flowerets on a salad plate garnished with lettuce and serve with French dressing or any other desired salad dressing.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4 | Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and SciencesPlace each tomato with this part uppermost on a salad plate garnished with lettuce.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4 | Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and SciencesThe salad plate should be placed directly before the person served.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4 | Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and SciencesIt should therefore be remembered that the salad plate is the next larger in size to the bread-and-butter plate.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4 | Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
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