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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pickled
adjective
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▪ His breath smelt of the black pickled olives she had first tasted on the voyage from Dingle.
▪ Over two hundred kinds of squid are eaten in every conceivable way from raw to pickled.
▪ Serve the gammon warm or cold with pickled pears.
▪ The result: plenty of fresh produce for the kitchen and such delights as crab apple and quince jellies and pickled walnuts.
▪ To my surprise, the pickled onions were the source of this interest.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pickled

Pickle \Pic"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pickled; p. pr. & vb. n. Pickling.]

  1. To preserve or season in pickle; to treat with some kind of pickle; as, to pickle herrings or cucumbers.

  2. To give an antique appearance to; -- said of copies or imitations of paintings by the old masters.

Pickled

Pickled \Pic"kled\, a. Preserved in a pickle.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pickled

"drunk," American English slang, 1900, figurative past participle adjective from pickle (v.).

Wiktionary
pickled
  1. preserved by pickling. v

  2. (en-past of: pickle)

WordNet
pickled

adj. (used of foods) preserved in a pickling liquid

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Usage examples of "pickled".

Shizuka exclaimed when she saw the delicacies of the season, raw sea bream and squid, broiled eel with green perilla and horseradish, pickled cucumbers and salted lotus root, rare black mushrooms and burdock, laid out on the lacquer trays.

I got out nachos and taramasalata and olives and carrots and pitta bread and brie and wine and mango pieces and pickled onions and carried them back to the sofa on a tray and ate them without tasting very much.

The roof was hung with hams and polonies and sausages, there were barrels of pickled meats, stacks of fat round cheeses, cases of Hansa beer, cases of cognac, pyramids of canned truffles, asparagus tips, shrimps, mushrooms, olives in oil, and other rarities.

This medieval market street is a quarter mile long, roofed over with red, green, and yellow awnings, and lined with 141 specialized shops selling raw and cooked foods, seaweed and rice and tofu of every description, fresh-roasted tea, sashimi knives, whiskey, pickles, and more fish than in an average-sized oceana hundred species in cases and tanks, pickled, dried, and salted fish in barrels and trays, fish being grilled over charcoal, fried as tempura, or cut into sushi.

Perhaps because I was not myself that morning it had been on the tip of my tongue to suggest beef and tetty pasties with pickled samphire for our supper.

Sugar or a burly spoony-man to appear, he remembers being invited to see the pickled old aristocrat in his smoking-room, and there, over port, being read the terms of the marriage of Agnes Unwin to William Rackham, Esquire.

With his chopsticks, Shichisaburo picked up a gray, slimy lump of pickled eggplant and held it out for Cat.

Chop one-half pound pickled pork and few fine herbs, stir them in with the onions, then stir in the yolks of two eggs and add a sufficient quantity breadcrumbs to make it fairly consistent.

I tell you that, after you go look at this uranium hexafluoride setup, we will give you not just ginger powder with your rice and fish, but pickled ginger root, as much as you can eat?

For some perverse reason Iba had a passion for pickled and smoked porcuswine tails, and always brought a container to work.

Elsewhere were stacked hogsheads and barrels of pickled vegetables and pickled or salted meats, stone crocks of salt or honey, stone jugs of brandy and cordials, kegs of oil and, near the stairs leading to the upper cellar, several ironbound caskets secured with huge padlocks.

There were chicken dumplings, dates stuffed with curried jackfruit, and pickled asparagus.

Captain Kaku was also there, eating a bowl of pickled plums and sipping tea.

Perry arrived with a breakfast of salt-cured mayfish, fruit pickled in a sweet ginger sauce, and a fresh muffin.

Moscow river, where one could buy everything one needed to survive the fast - mushrooms, pickled cabbage, gherkins, frozen apples and rowanberries, all kinds of bread made with Lenten butter, and a special type of sugar with the blessing of the Church.