Meanings
plural tracklements
- UKrareA savoury condiment (for example a mustard, relish or chutney), especially one served with meat.
preserves, conserves and homemade tracklements are sold at
1992, Simon Scott with Nancy Scott, Cruising Guide to the Virgin Islands, 1993-1994, page 1402 more examples
nestled together in a cunning arrangement, ornamented by the tracklements she had labored to obtain for her friends
2004, Katharine Weber, The Little Women, page 159The content of these stores, as well as wine, would mostly be preserved foodstuffs and tracklements.
2006, Janet MacDonald, Feeding Nelson's Navy: The True Story of Food at Sea in the Georgian Era, page 128
Origin
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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