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Definitions for Shallot
[1] a plant, Allium cepa aggregatum (or A. ascalonicum ), related to the onion, having a divided bulb used for flavoring in cookery.
[2] the bulb of this plant.
[3] Also called: scallion an alliaceous plant, Allium ascalonicum, cultivated for its edible bulb
[4] the bulb of this plant, which divides into small sections and is used in cooking for flavouring and as a vegetable
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Origin of Shallot
1655–65; aphetic variant of earlier eschalot < French échalote, diminutive of Middle French eschaloigne scallion
Word origin for Shallot
C17: from Old French eschalotte, from Old French eschaloigne, from Latin Ascalōnia caepa Ascalonian onion, from Ascalon, a Palestinian town