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[prawn] / prɔn /


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Massara, an Italian restaurant in New York City, even serves a cold pasta: a chilled spaghetti with red prawn and briny, decadent sea urchin.

From Salon • May 30, 2025

What made this day unique is that every watt of electricity, every prawn sandwich made, will be calculated in a report which rates the day's carbon footprint.

From BBC • Sep. 3, 2023

Lunch was roast rack of lamb with an Asian-style marinade, prawn tacos with pineapple salsa and a strawberry ginger trifle.

From New York Times • May 1, 2023

When he could not convince his father to get into year-round prawn cultivation, Tom reached a deal with him: “Grow pokkali, but leave marketing to me.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 25, 2023

Just as certain dishes—peach melba, prawn cocktail—have managed to spread across continents and survive over time, so some scientific doctrines are successfully disseminated, while others remain firmly tied to their time and place of origin.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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