chiffonade
Speech parts
1. chiffonade - Noun
2. chiffonade - Verb
Meaning
chiffonade (plural chiffonades)
A culinary preparation of herbs or leafy vegetables cut into long, thin ribbons.
chiffonade (third-person singular simple present chiffonades, present participle chiffonading, simple past and past participle chiffonaded)
To prepare a chiffonade.
Examples
As an optional garnish you can add some basil chiffonade.
Instead of a baby lettuce mix, a chiffonade of iceberg lettuce would have been a better (albeit not as uptown) contrast of textures in this mostly soft sandwich.