🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

aderezo para ensalada

Pronunciation / Transliteration: [a.deˈɾe.so paɾa en.saˈla.ða]

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Salad dressing/ˈsæl.əd ˈdrɛs.ɪŋ/
nounCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #3450 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Me gusta el aderezo para ensalada con un toque de limón."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A sauce or liquid mixture added to salads to give them flavor, moisture, or improved texture.

    "She poured a light vinaigrette salad dressing over the mixed greens."
  2. 2

    A creamy condiment, often mayonnaise-based, used primarily to bind or flavor cold potato, pasta, or vegetable salads.

    "The traditional potato salad recipe calls for a rich, creamy salad dressing."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'salad', derived from the Old French 'salade' and ultimately from the Latin 'sal' (salt), referring to salted greens, with 'dressing', from the verb 'dress', meaning to prepare or arrange. It emerged in the 17th century in English culinary terminology to describe various savory sauces poured over mixed vegetable dishes.

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