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Melba

in various food preparations, especially peach Melba (1905) and Melba toast (1925) is in honor of Nellie Melba, stage name (based on Melbourne, Australia) of Australian-born operatic soprano Helen Mitchell (1861-1931).

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melba

n. A dessert made originally from peach (now from other fruits), ice cream, and raspberry

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Melba, ID -- U.S. city in Idaho
Population (2000): 439
Housing Units (2000): 164
Land area (2000): 0.296324 sq. miles (0.767476 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.296324 sq. miles (0.767476 sq. km)
FIPS code: 51850
Located within: Idaho (ID), FIPS 16
Location: 43.373487 N, 116.529194 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 83641
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Melba

Melba may refer to:

  • Dame Nellie Melba (1861–1931), Australian soprano opera singer
    • Melba (film), a 1953 musical biopic drama film about Nellie Melba
    • Melba (miniseries), a 1988 Australian mini series about Nellie Melba
  • Melba Montgomery (born 1938), country music singer
  • Melba Moore (born 1945), American R&B singer and actress
    • Melba (1976 album)
    • Melba (1978 album)
    • Melba (TV series), a short-lived television series that starred Melba Moore
  • Melba Roy Mouton (died 1990), American NASA scientist
  • Melba (apple)
Melba (TV series)

Melba is an American television sitcom which aired on CBS from January 28, 1986 until September 13, 1986. The series was a vehicle for singer/actress Melba Moore.

Melba (1976 album)

Melba '76 is the sixth album by singer Melba Moore, released in late 1976.

Melba (1978 album)

Melba '78 is the eighth album by singer Melba Moore, released in 1978. This was her first LP with Epic Records.

Melba (film)

Melba is a 1953 musical biopic drama film of the life of Australian-born soprano Nellie Melba, written by Harry Kurnitz and directed by Lewis Milestone for Horizon Pictures, marking the film debut of the Metropolitan Opera's Patrice Munsel.

Melba (miniseries)

Melba is a 1988 Australian mini series about Dame Nellie Melba.

Melba (apple)

Melba is a Canadian high quality cultivar of domesticated apple, which was developed by W. T. Macoun at the Central Experimental Farm, in Ottawa, Ontario by crossing a McIntosh with a Liveland Raspberry apple. It has a yellow skin washed with crimson colour. Flesh is extremely white, firm and crisp. Flavor is sweet with hints of tart. There is also a Red Melba mutation which is more red coloured, and is ripening later in season.

This tree is very productive and can bear fruit at a young age, but has a biennial tendency. Early harvest. Need high skill gardening but highly rewarded. It is mainly used for fresh eating.

Usage examples of "melba".

The large platter also contained smoked salmon, pickled herring, liver pate, melba toast, bagels and cream cheese, artichoke hearts and slices of Kiwi fruit and papaya.

Her name was Dorothy, and she and Melba were not at odds, merely untalkative.

When Melba reached the dining room with a patch on her head and a tensor round her ankle everyone else was half through.

Vivian laughed, but she was a nervous laugher and Melba not easily offended.

Viv was the smallest and liveliest of the lot, and Melba liked her for making up what she herself lacked.

It was Melba who waited for Viv, after all, while she lingered over her tea.

Nevertheless, Melba, though she did not know if Viv had seen those children, down in the huge rooms of tanks and enclosures, knew that the age limit was thirty, Viv was twenty-eight, and that both she and NeoGenics agreed that seven would fulfill her contract.

Elaine Heslin and Melba Congleton, another girl I had met on the campaign trail, saw to that.

We took photographs of each other on the pier and wanted a group shot, so Melba asked a local resident to take one.

Doctor Maynard called it a acthidental overdoth tho we could put her in the ground with a prietht and thome prayer beadth, but you know Melba had had all thee could take.

Behind the counter, Stanley Caldwell rang up the purchases while his wife, Melba, bagged.

Nevertheless, because she loved him very much, she obediently ate it, helped down with Melba toast.

Miss Melba Rooney, a four-timer poisoner of husbands, not all of them her own.

He opened the back window and took in the yogurt and a can of ginger ale, set them down beside her with a spoon and some melba toast.

She stood up, swathed in her towel, Venus arising from the depths, and bowed with regal graciousness towards the audience, Madame Melba taking her final farewell of Covent Garden.