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mimosa salad

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.67 in modern English

Syllables
mi-mosa sal-ad
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A festive salad, popular in the former USSR, made with cheese, eggs, canned fish, onion, and mayonnaise.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Calque of Russian сала́т мимо́за (salát mimóza), from its resemblance to mimosa flowers scattered on the snow in spring.

Usage

Inflected Forms

mimosa salads (plural)

Questions

What does mimosa salad mean?
A festive salad, popular in the former USSR, made with cheese, eggs, canned fish, onion, and mayonnaise.
Where does mimosa salad come from?
Calque of Russian сала́т мимо́за (salát mimóza), from its resemblance to mimosa flowers scattered on the snow in spring.

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