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‖ mayonnaise
(meɪəˈneɪz, Fr. majɔnɛz)
[F. mayonnaise, also magnonaise, mahonnaise, the latter being prob. fem. of mahonnais of Port Mahon, capital of Minorca, taken by the duc de Richelieu in 1756.]
1. A thick sauce consisting of yolk of egg beaten up with oil and vinegar, and seasoned with salt, etc., used as a dressing for salad, cold meat, or fish; also, a dish (of meat, etc.) having this sauce as a dressing. Also with defining word, as egg mayonnaise, fish mayonnaise, lobster mayonnaise, salmon mayonnaise.
See quots. s.v. lobster1 5.
1841Thackeray Mem. Gormandising Misc. Ess. (1885) 396 A mayonnaise of crayfish. 1861Mrs. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. 225 For a fish Mayonnaise, this sauce may be coloured with lobster-spawn, pounded. 1883Chamb. Jrnl. 316 The dressing, or mayonnaise, of the salad is then commenced. 1910Encycl. Brit. VII. 74/2 The mayonnaise (originally mahonnaise) is ascribed to the duc de Richelieu. 1975D. Bloodworth Clients of Omega xvi. 153 The partners..began to eat salmon mayonnaise off the altar.
2. Contract Bridge = goulash 2.
1927M. Work Contract Bridge 138 Mayonnaise, old name of Goulash.
Hence mayoˈnnaised a.
1968C. Drummond Death & Leaping Ladies i. 7 A hearty trencherman himself, a victor over many a mayonnaised lobster. 1972P. A. Whitney Listen for Whisperer vii. 130 An array of tiny mayonnaised shrimps. |