pickled herring

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   herring preserved in a pickling liquid (usually brine or vinegar)

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Questions about pickled herring

What does pickled herring mean?

pickled herring means "herring preserved in a pickling liquid (usually brine or vinegar)".

Is pickled herring a common word?

pickled herring 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.