salad dressing

noun

a sauce for a salad, usually with a base of oil and vinegar or of mayonnaise.

Origin of salad dressing

First recorded in 1830–40

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Examples from the Web for salad dressing

Historical Examples of salad dressing

Pile it in the middle of a dish, and pour the salad-dressing over it.
Miss Leslie's Lady's New Receipt-Book
Eliza Leslie
To which Imson, busy over his salad-dressing, made no reply.
The Bright Messenger
Algernon Blackwood
If we only could afford to buy oil, Bridget would make us some salad-dressing.
Those Dale Girls
Frank Weston Carruth
But this would be all salad-dressing, and nothing to put it on.
The March Family Trilogy, Complete
William Dean Howells
Thousands of them were banqueting here and in other restaurants, encouraging all the arts from architecture to salad-dressing.
What Will People Say?
Rupert Hughes

British Dictionary definitions for salad dressing

salad dressing

noun

a sauce for salad, such as oil and vinegar or mayonnaise

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