salad dressing

a sauce for a salad, usually with a base of oil and vinegar or of mayonnaise.

Origin of salad dressing

First recorded in 1830–40

Put in a salad bowl, sprinkle with salt, pepper, sugar and lemon-juice and pour over a salad-dressing.

365 Foreign Dishes |Unknown
In reality the stories are only alligator pears—one merely eats them for the sake of the salad-dressing.

The Letters Of Mark Twain, Volume 3, 1876-1885 |Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
If we only could afford to buy oil, Bridget would make us some salad-dressing.

Those Dale Girls |Frank Weston Carruth
Thousands of them were banqueting here and in other restaurants, encouraging all the arts from architecture to salad-dressing.

What Will People Say? |Rupert Hughes

To which Imson, busy over his salad-dressing, made no reply.

The Bright Messenger |Algernon Blackwood

salad dressing

a sauce for salad, such as oil and vinegar or mayonnaise