Thousand Island dressing
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2.1
- noun
- /ˈθaʊzənd ˈaɪlənd ˈdrɛsɪŋ/
- US
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salsa mil islas
- You can dip your vegetables in Thousand Island dressing for a delicious snack.
Examples
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Thousand Island dressing.
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Sam, I'll have the fish special, a side of potatoes, and a salad with Thousand Island dressing.
Fiction book (2001) -
Bring me back a turkey and Swiss on rye, lettuce, no tomato, Thousand Island dressing but not too much, and tea with lemon.
Fiction book (1996) -
I tried a burger made "Mooyah style" with cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickles, grilled onions, and "Mooyah sauce," which was sort of like Thousand Island dressing.
Blog text (14) -
When the Stouffer's was ready, Bernstein fixed himself a salad of iceberg lettuce, which he covered with Kraft Thousand Island dressing, poured a glass of ginger ale, and took it all into the den.
Fiction book (1995) -
I enjoy my salad mixed with Thousand Island dressing for extra flavor.
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The restaurant's chef prepared a hearty bowl of greens topped with Thousand Island dressing.
Synonyms
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3.5
A creamy sauce for salads and sandwiches made from mayonnaise, horseradish, onion, and ketchup
Surface Forms
Morphology
While 'dressing' signals a salad sauce, 'Thousand Island' is a proper-name regional label and does not transparently describe the sauce's ingredients or creamy, mayonnaise/ketchup-based character. A B1 learner who knows 'thousand' and 'island' would not be able to derive the specific culinary meaning from those constituents alone, because the term is a lexicalized name rather than a compositional description.
Etymology
Thousand Island dressing gets its name from the Thousand Islands, a group of small islands on the river between the US and Canada, where one popular story says a local cook mixed mayonnaise, ketchup and chopped pickles to make a creamy sauce for fishermen and visitors. So, because people liked that sauce it was called 'Thousand Island' and today the phrase means the creamy salad dressing you order or buy in restaurants.