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- noun A
dessert made originally frompeach (now from other fruits),ice cream , andraspberry
Etymologies
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Examples
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I will no doubt be in a better mood after a month in France and thus will be as boring as melba toast upon my return to Lake Chapala.
Renting in Ajijic 2009
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I will no doubt be in a better mood after a month in France and thus will be as boring as melba toast upon my return to Lake Chapala.
Renting in Ajijic 2009
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I will no doubt be in a better mood after a month in France and thus will be as boring as melba toast upon my return to Lake Chapala.
Renting in Ajijic 2009
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I will no doubt be in a better mood after a month in France and thus will be as boring as melba toast upon my return to Lake Chapala.
Renting in Ajijic 2009
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In our cupboard, these were our staples: pimiento-stuffed olives, moldy jars of cocktail sauce, TV dinners, stale melba toast.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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I will no doubt be in a better mood after a month in France and thus will be as boring as melba toast upon my return to Lake Chapala.
Renting in Ajijic 2009
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I will no doubt be in a better mood after a month in France and thus will be as boring as melba toast upon my return to Lake Chapala.
Renting in Ajijic 2009
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I will no doubt be in a better mood after a month in France and thus will be as boring as melba toast upon my return to Lake Chapala.
Renting in Ajijic 2009
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I will no doubt be in a better mood after a month in France and thus will be as boring as melba toast upon my return to Lake Chapala.
Renting in Ajijic 2009
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In our cupboard, these were our staples: pimiento-stuffed olives, moldy jars of cocktail sauce, TV dinners, stale melba toast.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
thunderfoot commented on the word melba
As in toast.
December 6, 2006
bilby commented on the word melba
Melba in food names, e.g. peach melba, is after Dame Nellie Melba, an opera singer. I pass her house (now owned by her granddaughter) every time I go home to visit my parents.
April 6, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word melba
A small city in SW Idaho, situated in the Snake River valley.
March 15, 2011