Definitions

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  • noun A dessert made originally from peach (now from other fruits), ice cream, and raspberry

Etymologies

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From Peach Melba, a dish invented for Nellie Melba, an Australian opera singer.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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  • As in toast.

    December 6, 2006

  • 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

  • A small city in SW Idaho, situated in the Snake River valley.

    March 15, 2011