English Explanatory Dictionary

Thousand Island dressing

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A salad dressing of mayonnaise, ketchup, Tabasco sauce and finely chopped vegetables.

Word forms

Thousand Island dressing Thousand Island dressings Thousand Islands dressing

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

Thousand Island sauce Thousand Islands sauce Thousand Island salad dressing Thousand Islands salad dressing
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