tartar sauce

(tärt′ər)

a sauce, as for seafood, consisting of mayonnaise with chopped pickles, olives, capers, etc.

Origin: Fr sauce tartare

See tartar sauce in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

Mayonnaise mixed with chopped onion, olives, pickles, and capers and served as a sauce with fish.

Origin:

Origin: Translation of French sauce tartare

Origin: : sauce, sauce

Origin: + tartare, Tartar

Learn more about tartar sauce

tartar sauce images

link/cite print suggestion box

More from YD