(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.
Savvy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) He's called out for his lack of imagination in a stinging review by a leading food critic (Oliver Platt) and - after being introduced to Twitter by his tech-savvy son (Emjay Anthony) - accidentally starts a flame war that will lead to him losing his job.
(2) Once seen as the preserve of the tech-savvy, early adopters and gamers, adblocking has now moved into the mainstream,” said Bill Fisher, senior analyst at eMarketer.
(3) Husain Haqqani was a fleet-footed, fast-talking diplomatic operator whose savvy style was well suited to Barack Obama's Washington.
(4) The task of unpicking exactly what type of gap in intelligence that the surveillance-savvy and well-organised bombers were able to slip through will take time, but it holds the key to preventing further Islamic State attacks.
(5) Friday's missile attack came two weeks after a US drone strike killed prominent American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a gifted Muslim preacher and savvy internet operator who became a powerful al-Qaida tool for recruiting in the West.
(6) But BrewDog’s astonishing growth may raise the uncomfortable possibility that in an age of media-savvy and brand-sceptical digital natives, ostentatious displays of “authenticity” – known to some as acting like pretentious hipster douchebags – may have become a necessary condition for success.
(7) Aides and staffers as prominent as senior White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer have led the online charge, using YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, gifs and videos to go directly to a more internet-savvy audience, targeting young people in particular.
(8) He may be a bully rather than a leader, but Christie is savvy enough to know which gets to you to the top.
(9) Remember: sponging is just being savvy Lack of money is no doubt holding you back from having what would otherwise be the time of your life.
(10) But we know they still hold regular good old-fashioned sales, giving savvy shoppers a chance to grab a bargain.
(11) Photograph: Murdo Macleod With 440,000+ followers on Twitter, Atwood is one of literature's most digital-savvy voices.
(12) Under his leadership, the TTP showed political savvy by selectively targeting parties during this year's election.
(13) VAT-free imports from the Channel Islands remained a cottage industry until 1998 when three bright 28-year-olds on Jersey, high-street sportswear retailers Richard Goulding and Simon Perrée and their computer-savvy friend Peter de Bourcier, started selling DVDs to UK mainland customers via Play.com.
(14) Back in the early 1990s, President Bill Clinton rode to power on the strength of one savvy motto: "It's the economy, stupid."
(15) A Ukip councillor has blamed London's "more media-savvy and educated" population for the party's lack of success in the capital as local election results indicate an emerging geographical split in the party's popularity.
(16) His adrenalin-pumping shows are woven into American life, yet subvert its capitalist fundamentals, that innate American principle of screw-thy-neighbour, in favour of what he insists to be "real" America – working class, militant, street-savvy, tough but romantic, nomadic but with roots – compiled into what feels like a single epic but vernacular rock-opera lasting four decades.
(17) A former employee at Care meanwhile insists that this "politically savvy" group relentlessly lobbies behind the scenes, drawing up lists of sympathetic MPs and briefings.
(18) "With a 53 per cent increase in energy consumption forecast by 2035, those who are commercially savvy will recognise that in a resource poor future, we cannot be captured by a profligate economic model from the past.
(19) Why the Republican healthcare bill was doomed: a failed political balancing act Read more Trump rages with all the hate of Le Pen and none of the savvy.
(20) And rather than to the purists of Camra, it was to the anything-goes craft brewers of America that many turned for their inspiration: to exuberant beers with exotic ingredients (chilli, honey, chocolate, hemp, mustard, even myrrh), but also to hip design, guerrilla marketing and social media savvy.