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sorrel: tags: [botany] [culinary]

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a common edible, sour-tasting salad green

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I hid myself between two leaves of sorrel, and there discharged the necessities of nature.

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)

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on the low-lying lands the riverside meadows are a thick sea of grass waiting for the mowing, with blackened heaps of the stalks of sorrel among it.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)

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The table was laid under the cart-shed. On it were four sirloins, six chicken fricassees, stewed veal, three legs of mutton, and in the middle a fine roast suckling pig, flanked by four chitterlings with sorrel.

Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary

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