shallot
pronunciation
How to pronounce shallot in British English:
UK [ʃəˈlɒt]
How to pronounce shallot in American English:
US [ʃəˈlɑt]
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- Noun:
- aggregated bulb of the multiplier onion
- type of onion plant producing small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning
- small mild-flavored onion- or garlic-like clustered bulbs used for seasoning
Word Origin
- shallot
- shallot: [17] The shallot is etymologically the onion from ‘Ascalon’, an ancient port in southern Palestine. The Romans called it Ascalōnia caepa ‘Ascalonian onion’, or ascalōnia for short. In Vulgar Latin this became *escalonia, which passed into Old French as escaloigne (source of English scallion [14], still used for ‘spring onion’ in America and elsewhere). The variant form eschalotte developed. English took this over as eschalot (‘Eschalots are now from France become an English plant’, John Mortimer, Whole Art of Husbandry 1707), and soon lopped off the first syllable to produce shallot.=> scallion
- shallot (n.)
- "small onion," 1660s, shortened from eschalot, from French échalote, from Middle French eschalotte, from Old French eschaloigne, from Vulgar Latin *escalonia (see scallion).
Example
- 1. Preparation and properties of shallot oleoresin microcapsules .
- 2. Chinese pepper , jitui shallot , dried and fresh fruit , vegetables .
- 3. Chili , pepper and shallot are usually necessaries in this division .
- 4. Finely chop the lemongrass , kaffir leaves , coriander , shallot & thai chili .
- 5. He is fond of pies with shallot and fat , but I do not like it , and feel it 's too oily .