(n.) A variety of the common cabbage (Brassica oleracea major), having curled leaves, -- much cultivated for winter use.
Example Sentences:
(1) This site, near the Savoy hotel, means the 3,000-strong Co-operative Food chain will have an outlet in every single UK postal area.
(2) Tuberculosis of the spleen was found only in the groups treated with savoy juice (in 28.57% after administration of 1 mg and 47.36% after that of 10 mg of mycobacteria).
(3) Steaming is best for January Kings as the leaves are softer than, say, a Savoy.
(4) My brother is also involved and we grow January King, red, white, Savoy and green cabbages, plus sprouts, potatoes, parsnips and some cereals.
(5) Says Davis: "The boot is produced, and Chaplin handles it as if he is a maitre d' at the Savoy.
(6) Phospholipase D has been purified 680-fold from an acetone powder of savoy cabbage in an overall yield of 30%.
(7) The billionaire said he is seeking damages from the magazine over "seriously defamatory comments" about him and his investment vehicle, Kingdom Holdings Company, which owns stakes in Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and London's Savoy hotel.
(8) The Swazi Vigil protest group had waved placards outside the Savoy hotel, where Mswati was said to be installed with a 30-strong entourage, rather than Windsor.
(9) He would soon base the 1970 novel Arfur: Teenage Pinball Queen in his fictionalised New Orleans, now renamed Moriarty (“the foremost city of the nation, a compound of refinement and squalor, grace and depravity”), where there were now beautifully named quarters of Cohn’s own making – Jitney, Cicero and Savoy, “the wealthy St Jude and the shanty Canrush”.
(10) Despite Weetabix being derided by a head chef at the Savoy as "cakes that you give to dogs", Weetabix's chief executive, Giles Turrell, said he believed there were "substantial opportunities to further grow the business internationally, in North America, Asia and beyond".
(11) To support this performance he gives us the music of a palm court trio - of just the sort you could hear at the Savoy.
(12) You have to learn to put one foot in front of the other … You also have to look at what accidents might befall you … You have to have stamina because it could be a long route.” Barnier is from the Savoy Alps, the most mountainous region of France.
(13) The authors did study the experimental effects on Aedes aegypti ova of different Spiroplasma strains, isolated from mosquitoes in French Savoy and in Taiwan.
(14) Serves 6 (makes 12 parcels) 2 tbsp rapeseed oil 1 large onion, finely diced 1 carrot, grated 1 tsp caster sugar 1 tbsp tomato paste 1 fresh bay leaf 1 tin chopped tomatoes 1 head Savoy cabbage, 12 leaves separated 500g beef mince 500g pork mince 160g rice, parboiled and drained 40g barberries (optional) To serve 100ml sour cream ½ small bunch dill, finely chopped 1 Make the sauce first.
(15) She became, however, a dedicated one, and although she was disgracefully underused in latter years, even in her last major stage performance, a revival of DL Coburn's The Gin Game at the Savoy Theatre in 1999, she soared way above that rickety old play.
(16) Both white and Savoy-type cabbage added to a semi-purified diet at 25% dry weight and fed to rats ad lib.
(17) This resulted in The Savoy Cocktail Book , which shared recipes from the hotel’s American bar with an eager public in 1930 – and has never been out of print since.
(18) I was 23 when I put on the Savoy jacket for the first time and I thought I'd arrived.
(19) The Big Man, as he was known at his TV network Channel Nine, was in fact alive and well and living in London's Savoy hotel, where he regularly spent the polo season.
(20) It was a Saturday and the Savoy was crammed with excited children eager for the afternoon show.
Savoyard
Definition:
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Savoy.
Example Sentences:
(1) My maternal grandfather, a Savoyard tailor, lived with his family in a simple two-room flat in Paris.
(2) There are three food counters: serving burgers, pizzas and Savoyard specialities.