Cobb-salad
noun
1.
a salad of lettuce, chopped chicken breast, bacon, cheddar, avocado, tomato, and hard-boiled egg, typically with a blue cheese and vinaigrette dressing.
noun
a salad with chopped poultry, tomatoes, avocado, bacon, hard-boiled eggs, and sometimes onions and mushrooms, dressed in vinaigrette and topped with blue, Roquefort, or Gorgonzola cheese
Examples
The Cobb salad and the Caesar salad were the first ‘main course’ salads.
Word Origin
for Robert Cobb, the owner of Hollywood’s Brown Derby restaurant where the salad was created
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