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tartare sauce

tartare sauce noun: a sauce made from mayonnaise and a chopped mixture of pickled gherkins, capers, olives and shallots; traditionally served with fish or other seafood.

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Noun

tartare sauce (countable and uncountable, plural tartare sauces)

  1. A sauce made from mayonnaise and a chopped mixture of pickled gherkins, capers, olives and shallots; traditionally served with fish or other seafood.

Forms of tartare sauce

pluraltartare sauces
alternative formtartar sauce

Origin of tartare sauce

From French sauce tartare.

Questions about tartare sauce

What does tartare sauce mean?
Tartare sauce means a sauce made from mayonnaise and a chopped mixture of pickled gherkins, capers, olives and shallots; traditionally served with fish or other seafood.
What part of speech is tartare sauce?
Tartare sauce is a noun.
What is the plural of tartare sauce?
The plural of tartare sauce is tartare sauces.

Words near tartare sauce in the dictionary

  1. tartar emetic
  2. tartar sauce
  3. tartar sauces
  4. tartarated
  5. tartare
  6. tartare sauce
  7. tartare sauces
  8. Tartarean
  9. Tartareans
  10. tartareous
  11. tartares

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