1 We'll have lettuce and make a salad.
2 The lobster was a scarlet mystery to her, but she hammered and poked till it was unshelled and its meager proportions concealed in a grove of lettuce leaves.
3 In the display window, black, overripe bananas and lettuce on which a cat was sleeping.
4 He often spent half a day in gazing at a market garden, the beds of lettuce, the chickens on the dung-heap, the horse turning the water-wheel.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY 5 Some of the young ladies washed the lettuces for him, and sliced them under his directions.