shallot
noun/ʃəˈlɒt/
/ʃəˈlɑːt/
- a vegetable like a small onion with a very strong tasteTopics Foodc2Word Originmid 17th cent.: shortening of eschalot, from French eschalotte, alteration of Old French eschaloigne (in Anglo-Norman French scaloun, based on Latin Ascalonia (caepa) ‘(onion) of Ascalon’, a port in ancient Palestine.).
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