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noun
Chicory  n.  
1.
(Bot.) A branching perennial plant (Cichorium Intybus) with bright blue flowers, growing wild in Europe, Asia, and America; also cultivated for its roots and as a salad plant; succory; wild endive. See Endive.
2.
The root, which is roasted for mixing with coffee.





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"Chicory" Quotes from Famous Books



... Chicory.—Sow in May or June in drills of rich soil, and thin out to 6 in. apart. In autumn lift the roots and store them in dry sand. To force leaves for salads, plant the roots closely together in boxes or large pots, with the tops only ...
— Gardening for the Million • Alfred Pink
... "Whitloof" or "Belgian Chicory" or have you ever dined in one of the better restaurants of large city where they have served during the winter months a salad composed of golden blanched oblong leaves about 2 inches wide and 5 inches long, ...
— Three Acres and Liberty • Bolton Hall
... for the adulteration of coffee; is also a fine relish, and has broad leaves. Endive is of the same nature as chicory, the ...
— The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) - The Whole Comprising A Comprehensive Cyclopedia Of Information For - The Home • Mrs. F.L. Gillette
... Scandalous; "if the cassowary licked us, what chance would we stand against the bison? That'll be all for the olio; I'll go right into the after-show now. Slip me a dipper of straight chicory and one of those Flor de Boiled Dinners, and then you can break the bad news to my pal here." By this I knew he meant that he craved a cup of black coffee and one of the domestic cigars to which he was addicted, and that I ...
— From Place to Place • Irvin S. Cobb
... rickety than the rest; if the ancient-fashioned coat of some long-descended marchese was itself as threadbare as the old family liveries; if some widowed contessa had crept out from the last habitable corner of her dilapidated palazzo, where she was known to live on a modicum of chicory-water, brought in a tumbler from the nearest cafe, and a crust; not on any such account was there the smallest tendency towards a derisive smile on the lip, or in the mind of any man, at these pitiable attempts to keep ...
— A Siren • Thomas Adolphus Trollope
... very poor customers, these gentlemen have tried to be still more economical. Under pretence of having caught the mocha of the establishment in improper intercourse with chicory, they have brought a lamp with spirits-of-wine, and make their own coffee, sweetening it with their own sugar; all of which is an ...
— Bohemians of the Latin Quarter • Henry Murger


Words linked to "Chicory" :   chicory root, radicchio, root, coffee substitute, herbaceous plant, genus Cichorium, succory, chicory plant, salad green, chicory escarole, Cichorium intybus, salad greens, herb, Cichorium, curly endive


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