tartare sauce

Variant of tartar sauce

tartar sauce definition

tar·tar sauce (tärt′ər)

a sauce, as for seafood, consisting of mayonnaise with chopped pickles, olives, capers, etc.
also sp. tartare sauce tar′·tare sauce

Etymology: Fr sauce tartare

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