tartar sauce

A form of tartare sauce — A sauce made from mayonnaise and a chopped mixture of pickled gherkins, capers, olives and shallots; traditionally served with fish or other seafood.

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Meanings

nountartar sauce (countable and uncountable, plural tartar sauces)

plural tartar sauces

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative spelling of tartare sauce.

Synonyms & antonyms

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

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sauce
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APA

tartar sauce. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tartar%20sauce

MLA

“tartar sauce.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tartar%20sauce. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tartar sauce,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tartar%20sauce.

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