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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
romaine
noun
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▪ A few leaves of crisp, cool romaine would make a good addition.
▪ It came piled on a white plate: a hill of young romaine lettuce served with a sliced lemon.
▪ The Caesar is a generous complement of crispy romaine tossed with a mild, creamy vinaigrette.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
romaine

type of lettuce, 1876, from French romaine (in laitue romaine, literally "Roman lettuce"), from fem. of Old French romain "Roman," from Latin Romanus (see Roman). Perhaps so called because of the lettuce's introduction into France (by Bureau de la Rivière, chamberlain of Charles V and VI) at the time of the Avignon papacy (1309-77).

Wiktionary
romaine

n. (taxlink Lactuca sativa var. longifolia variety noshow=1), a type of lettuce having long crisp leaves forming a slender head.

WordNet
romaine

n. lettuce with long dark-green leaves in a loosely packed elongated head [syn: cos, cos lettuce, romaine lettuce]

Wikipedia
Romaine

Romaine may refer to:

  • Romaine (name)
  • Romaine lettuce, variety of lettuce
  • Romaine (Franche-Comté), the Romaine river, in eastern France
Romaine (Franche-Comté)

The Romaine is a 25.4 km river in Haute-Saône in Franche-Comté, eastern France. It rises in Fondremand and flows generally west to join the Saône at Vellexon-Queutrey-et-Vaudey.

Romaine (name)

Romaine is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Usage examples of "romaine".

Professor Romaine Newbold, who publishes this dream, explains that the professor had unconsciously reasoned out his facts, the difference of colour in the two pieces of agate disappearing in the dream.

And then two ruly police gentlemen entered the room, with the guests blanching, and lettuce and romaine and radishes too flying for the exits, which were choked with grass.

Les Bossenno recouvrent une villa gallo-romaine qui etait etablie la, au bout du monde connu, avec ses murs de pierre et de brique, ses chambres peintes de vives couleurs, sa metairie, ses bains et son temple, telle enfin que Columelle decrit une villa romaine.

Richmond, embrasserait la religion romaine, et, entrant dans les ordres, suivrait M.

I prepared almond-crusted chicken, a romaine salad, orzo pasta with peas and mint.

A third tray contained a bowl of arugula and romaine lettuces beside a heated crock of what looked and smelled like the recipe I'd shown him for a hot port wine and chèvre dressing.

Next these came Tyne, along whose stony banckeThat Romaine Monarch built a brasen wall,Which mote the feebled Britons strongly flanckeAgainst the Picts, that swarmed ouer all,Which yet thereof Gualseuer they doe call:And Twede the limit betwixt Logris landAnd Albany: And Eden though but small,Yet often stainde with bloud of many a bandOf Scots and English both, that tyned on his strand.

Guizot, "Tacite a peint les Germains comme Montaigne et Rousseau les sauvages, dans un acces d'humeur contre sa patrie: son livre est une satire des moeurs Romaines, l'eloquente boutade d'un patriote philosophe qui veut voir la vertu la, ou il ne rencontre pas la mollesse honteuse et la depravation savante d'une vielle societe.

Nensi and Romaine had brought him, McCoy, and Scott, to the chief administratoes residence in order to add a third major piece to the puzzle: the synthetic consciousnesses known as the Pathfinders, the only known independent machine intelligences sanctioned by law to exist in the Federation, were somehow involved in the complex web of mystery that had drawn together the Enterprise and Memory Prime.

Nensi and Romaine had brought him, McCoy, and Scott to the chief administrator’s residence in order to add a third major piece to the puzzle: the synthetic consciousnesses known as the Pathfinders, the only known independent machine intelligences sanctioned by law to exist in the Federation, were somehow involved in the complex web of mystery that had drawn together the Enterprise and Memory Prime.

Chopping Spree Salad 1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breasts &frac14 cup fresh lime juice &frac14 cup extra-virgin olive oil 1 large head romaine lettuce, outer leaves removed 4 canned hearts of palm, well rinsed Nonstick cooking spray &frac14 cup pine nuts or blanched, slivered almonds ½ cup diced fresh jicama 1 cup seeded diced tomato (about 2 medium tomatoes) ½ cup trimmed, thinly sliced scallions (about 2 scallions) Tangy Lime Dressing (recipe follows) Place the chicken breasts between sheets of plastic wrap and pound them with a mallet to a 13-inch thickness.

Because iceberg lettuce was eighty-nine cents a head, Helen had tried to feed the manatee Romaine, which was much cheaper, but the manatee didn't care much for it, so she had gone back to giving it iceberg.

Demencio was in his favorite TV chair, nervously tossing a head of romaine lettuce from one hand to the other, like a softball.

The waitress brought their Circe Salads: large chunks of romaine lettuce, orange slices, bean and wheat sprouts, shredded coconut, a blob of vanilla yogurt, and a topping of grated sugar-cane sawdust soaked in ginseng.

What the hell was the difference between green leaf and romaine lettuce, and why should he care?