Crossword clues for escarole
escarole
The Collaborative International Dictionary
escarole \escarole\ n. [Fr., from OFr. scariole. fr. LL. escariola, L. escarius of food, fit to eat, esca food, fr. edere to eat.] a variety of endive ( Cichorium endivia) often used in salads, having leaves with irregular frilled edges.
Syn: endive, curly endive.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of endive, 1897, from French escarole (13c., scariole), from Italian scariola, from Medieval Latin escariola.\n
Wiktionary
n. A subspecies or variety of endive, (taxlink Cichorium endivia subsp. crispum subspecies noshow=1), that has frilly leaves.
WordNet
n. variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges [syn: chicory escarole, endive]
Usage examples of "escarole".
Gidre was eating frog legs and digging into his double order of escarole cooked with bacon.
His fragile expectations would inevitably dampen as she attacked her salad, flickered as she swallowed garlic escarole with vulgar relish, guttered with the entree, and died over brandy and cheese.
Snowclaw asked, tossing the half-chewed turkey leg into the tureen of escarole soup.
At Valencay, his stunningly beautiful Renaissance chateau, he played the provincial squire, installed as mayor and experimenting with new varieties of escarole and carrot and tending his nursery of Scotch pines.