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abalone

[ab-uh-loh-nee] / ˌæb əˈloʊ ni /
NOUN
shell
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG


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Visiting one celebrated restaurant in San Francisco, he describes the preparation of commercially farmed abalone steaks as someone who knows his way around a commercial kitchen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

“The shucked abalone is trimmed, butterflied, and thwacked lightly with a mallet.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

At Rosewood’s three hotels located throughout New Zealand, the chefs honor this ethically sourced ethos, working with local purveyors and farmers to source indigenous ingredients like beach spinach, fern fronds and abalone.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026

Kim Namin, 29, runs a seasoned gim processing factory with a 30-year family history in Wando, an island in South Korea's southern waters known for abalone and seaweed production.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026

Then she would float on her back and put the abalone on her breast and strike it again and again with the rock until the shell was broken.

From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell

He recalled dishes considered delicacies such as donkey meat and abalones - a type of mollusc - being flown in from Pyongyang.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2023

“Chinese people like to eat these expensive foods like sea cucumbers and abalones at our Lunar New Year family gatherings because we have worked very hard over the past year,” Fong said.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 2022

The traditional dish known as “poon choi,” or “basin food,” is a large dish filled with lotus root, radish, taro and more expensive delicacies such as prawns, abalones and meat layered on top.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 2022

For centuries, fishermen have carved their homes into the bluffs, like bird’s nests, plucking abalones and sailing out for bamboo crabs.

From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2016

I waited until the tide was low, which was close to dawn, and filled a basket with sea water and abalones.

From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell


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