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gherkin

[gur-kin] / ˈgɜr kɪn /


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The gherkins “symbolized for me the last thing you have in your cupboards when you run out of everything. It starts from the last gherkin jar, and from there it all goes south.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2025

As I bit into the taut casing of the sausage, chunks of onion and gherkin fell here and there.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2022

"We already have a giant gherkin in the City, now it looks as if we are going to have an enormous salt cellar as well," the Prince of Wales said in 2003.

From BBC • Dec. 19, 2015

In one of the barns, an assistant is working on a sculpture made of sausagelike elements, while just outside stands one of Wurm’s large gherkin sculptures.

From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2014

Caper sauce, by adding capers; or, as a substitute, chopped gherkin.

From The Skilful Cook A Practical Manual of Modern Experience by Harrison, Mary




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