tartare sauce

1. 1.

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

   Synonymstartar sauce

   Broadersauce

Questions about tartare sauce

What does tartare sauce mean?

tartare 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 tartare sauce?

Close synonyms include tartar 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 tartare sauce a common word?

tartare 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.