a cold dish consisting of hard-boiled eggs, anchovy fillets, olives, tomatoes, tuna fish, etc
Word origin
C20: from French, literally salad of or from Nice, S France
salade niçoise in American English
(ˈsæləd niˈswɑz; French saˈlad niˈswaz)
[occas.s- N-orS- N-]
a salad typically containing tuna, tomatoes, cooked green beans and potatoes, anchovies, hard-boiled eggs, and black olives, with or without greens, dressed witha garlic vinaigrette