Well attestedNamed from the place
Greek salad
noun · first attested 20th century
In Greece nobody calls it Greek.
A salad of tomato, cucumber, onion, olives and feta, dressed with olive oil.
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- Named from the place
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- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 20th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Greek salad
The Greek name is horiatiki, meaning village salad, and it says nothing about the country; the qualifier Greek exists for people ordering it abroad. It contains no lettuce, and the feta is laid on top in a single slab rather than crumbled through it. English acquired the dish with mass tourism to Greece from the 1960s.
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