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sandwich plate

sandwich plate

2.2
A plate with a sandwich and a small side like salad or pickles
  • noun
translation icon : plato de sándwich
  • For lunch, she ordered the sandwich plate, which came with two types of sandwiches and a small basket of chips.

Examples

  • The buffet included a lavish sandwich plate decorated with colorful garnishes and a side of salad.

  • "Good King Wenceslas" pipes through the manor; smiling, ALFRED sets the sandwich plate alongside a steaming kettle on a sterling silver tea service.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • At the picnic, we enjoyed a delicious sandwich plate filled with various sandwiches and fresh pickles.

Synonyms

sandwich
vssandwich plate
800 1.0

Two slices of bread with food like meat or cheese between them for a meal

is a plated serving that adds salad or pickles as garnishes

How Filling

main course
28 1.3
sandwich plate
2.2
sandwich
800 1.0
to snack
27 1.0

Surface Forms

sandwich plate singular
sandwich plates plural

Morphology

sandwich + plate

The meaning is directly and literally built from 'sandwich' (the food item) and 'plate' (a dish/serving), i.e. a plate with a sandwich or a serving of sandwich(es). This simple noun+noun compositional pattern is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

Sandwich plate comes from simple café practice: a sandwich placed on a plate is served with small sides like salad or pickles. That's why a sandwich plate means 'a sandwich plus side items' served as a small meal.