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noun
A salad dressing of mayonnaise, ketchup, Tabasco sauce and finely chopped vegetables.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
mayonnaise with chili sauce or catsup and minced olives and peppers and hard-cooked egg
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: dressing, salad dressing
History
From Thousand Island + dressing, because the dressing has often been said to have originated in the Thousand Islands region, located along the upper St Lawrence River, near its head at Lake Ontario, between the United States and Canada. As Wikipedia explains, this etymology is not known with certainty.
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