salad dressing

noun

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

Nearby words

salad bar, salad basket, salad bowl, salad burnet, salad days, salad dressing, salad fork, salad green, salad oil, salad plate, salade

Origin of salad dressing

First recorded in 1830–40

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Examples from the Web for salad dressing

Put in a salad bowl, sprinkle with salt, pepper, sugar and lemon-juice and pour over a salad-dressing.
365 Foreign Dishes|Unknown
In reality the stories are only alligator pears—one merely eats them for the sake of the salad-dressing.
The Letters Of Mark Twain, Volume 3, 1876-1885|Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
If we only could afford to buy oil, Bridget would make us some salad-dressing.
Those Dale Girls|Frank Weston Carruth
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

To which Imson, busy over his salad-dressing, made no reply.
The Bright Messenger|Algernon Blackwood

British Dictionary definitions for salad dressing

salad dressing

noun

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

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salad dressing

noun

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Origin of salad dressing

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British Dictionary definitions for salad dressing

salad dressing

noun