tartar sauce

1. 1.

   mayonnaise with chopped pickles and sometimes capers and shallots and parsley and hard-cooked egg; sauce for seafood especially fried fish

   Synonymstartare sauce

   Broadersauce

Questions about tartar sauce

What does tartar sauce mean?

tartar sauce means "mayonnaise with chopped pickles and sometimes capers and shallots and parsley and hard-cooked egg; sauce for seafood especially fried fish".

What is another word for tartar sauce?

Close synonyms include tartare sauce. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tartar sauce a common word?

tartar sauce 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.