Thousand Island dressing en · NOUN
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.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) 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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thousand Island dressings | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| Thousand Islands dressing | alternative | lexicographic | |
| thousand islands dressing | alternative | lexicographic | |
| thousand island dressing | alternative | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Big Mac sauce (a sauce derived from Thousand Island sauce) · special sauce (a sauce derived from Thousand Island sauce) · secret sauce (a sauce derived from Thousand Island sauce) · burger sauce (a sauce derived from Thousand Island sauce)
Synonyms
thousand island salad dressing · Thousand Island sauce · Thousand Island salad dressing · Thousand Islands salad dressing · thousand islands salad dressing · Thousand Islands sauce · thousand islands sauce · thousand island sauce
Translations (8)
fi thousand island -kastike (salad dressing) · sv Rhode islandsås (salad dressing) · de Amerika Dressing (salad dressing) · de American Dressing (salad dressing) · pl sos tysiąca wysp (salad dressing) · fr vinaigrette des mille îles (salad dressing) · yue 千島醬 /千岛酱 (salad dressing) · de Amerikaner Dressing (salad dressing)