Etymology

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Today it means: A savoury condiment (for example a mustard, relish or chutney), especially one served with meat. Full definition →

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Coined in its current sense by the English cookery writer Dorothy Hartley in her book Food in England in 1954, but probably derived from a similar dialect word with variant spellings (e.g. tranklement, tanchiment) used before that date across North and Central England and meaning "ornaments, trinkets; bits of things".

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