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Meaning of coronation chicken | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Cold pre-cooked chicken meat in a creamy mayonnaise-based sauce with herbs and spices, used as a sandwich filling or in salads.

uncountable

Examples

“Everybody loves coronation chicken if it is made well, but it has become a bit of a low-rent classic, alongside prawn cocktail! Sadly, there are numerous bad versions of the dish—pale shadows of the real thing invented 50 years ago by Constance Spry and Rosemary Hume of the Cordon Bleu School in London to mark the coronation celebrations of 1953.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

Coronation Gulf Coronation Island coronation quiche coronation sauce Coronations coronato