Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A variety of endive (Cichorium endivia var. latifolia) having relatively broad, mildly bitter leaves.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Blanched endive: a salad vegetable. Also escarolla.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a variety of endive (Cichorium endivia) often used in salads, having leaves with irregular frilled edges.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A variety of endive, Cichorium endivia, that has frilly leaves

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, from Old French scariole, from Late Latin ēscāriola, chicory, from Latin ēscārius, of food, from ēsca, food, from edere, ēs-, to eat; see ed- in Indo-European roots.]

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Examples

  • This dish was fairly easy to put together, but washing the escarole is a bit time-consuming - it's quite sandy.

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

  • This dish was fairly easy to put together, but washing the escarole is a bit time-consuming - it's quite sandy.

    Ragout and a new green. 2006

  • During a recent cooking class, doctors learned how to make dishes such as escarole and bean soup, baked eggplant parmigiana and simmered black sea bass.

    Teaching Healthy Ways To Doctors in the Kitchen 2010

  • In fact the only crops we are growing at Fletcher Salads are whole head leafy salads such as escarole, frisee, endive, radicchio, lollo rossa & red oakleaf etc for the processing, sandwich & foodservice sectors.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Thatsnews 2008

  • While the escarole finishes cooking, prepare scallops.

    Braised Escarole With Seared Bay Scallops Kitty Greenwald 2011

  • Braising escarole, a winter chicory, brings out the green's bittersweet notes and the lemon slices, cooked with pith and all, add what Ms. Lo calls "bite contrast."

    Braised Escarole With Seared Bay Scallops Kitty Greenwald 2011

  • Place a handful of outer leaves from four bunches of mixed chicories like escarole, fris é e, radicchio and curly endive in a bowl along with leaves separated from the base of 1 Belgian endive and add some olive oil, salt, pepper, a splash of water and mix.

    A Guide to Loving Winter Greens 2011

  • She created the dish on Long Island after her neighbor gave her a homegrown head of French escarole.

    Braised Escarole With Seared Bay Scallops Kitty Greenwald 2011

  • For her third Slow Food Fast recipe, Ms. Lo prepared seared scallops with braised escarole and lemon.

    Braised Escarole With Seared Bay Scallops Kitty Greenwald 2011

  • She paired the escarole with local Peconic Bay scallops, which she calls, "the most local and delicious scallops."

    Braised Escarole With Seared Bay Scallops Kitty Greenwald 2011

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