herring salad

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   based on pickled herring

   Broadersalad

Questions about herring salad

What does herring salad mean?

herring salad means "based on pickled herring".

Is herring salad a common word?

herring salad is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.