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Thousand Island dressing

Thousand Island dressing noun: a salad dressing of mayonnaise, ketchup, Tabasco sauce and finely chopped vegetables.

thousand island dressing: a salad dressing of mayonnaise, ketchup, Tabasco sauce and finely chopped vegetables
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Noun

Thousand Island dressing (countable and uncountable, plural Thousand Island dressings)

  1. A salad dressing of mayonnaise, ketchup, Tabasco sauce and finely chopped vegetables.
    • 'Soft-shell crabs with tartare sauce, flat beef Hamburgers, medium-rare, from the charcoal grill, french-fried potatoes, broccoli, mixed salad with thousand-island dressing, ice-cream with melted butterscotch and as good a Liebfraumilch as you can get in America. Okay?'1954, Ian Fleming, “The Red Carpet”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 9
    Synonyms:
    Thousand Island sauce, Thousand Islands sauce, Thousand Island salad dressing, Thousand Islands salad dressing

Synonyms of Thousand Island dressing

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

Forms of Thousand Island dressing

pluralThousand Island dressings
alternative formthousand island dressing
alternative formThousand Islands dressing
alternative formthousand islands dressing

Origin of Thousand Island dressing

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.

Questions about Thousand Island dressing

What does Thousand Island dressing mean?
Thousand Island dressing means a salad dressing of mayonnaise, ketchup, Tabasco sauce and finely chopped vegetables.
What part of speech is Thousand Island dressing?
Thousand Island dressing is a noun.
What is the plural of Thousand Island dressing?
The plural of Thousand Island dressing is Thousand Island dressings.

Words near Thousand Island dressing in the dictionary

  1. thous
  2. thousan'
  3. thousand
  4. thousand and one
  5. Thousand Island
  6. Thousand Island dressing
  7. Thousand Island dressings
  8. Thousand Islands
  9. thousand million
  10. Thousand Oaks
  11. thousand one

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