# Thousand Island dressing

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A salad dressing of mayonnaise, ketchup, Tabasco sauce and finely chopped vegetables.

## Etymology
From Thousand Island + dressing, because the dressing has often been said to have originated in the Thousand Islands region, located along the upper St Lawrence River, near its head at Lake Ontario, between the United States and Canada. As Wikipedia explains, this etymology is not known with certainty.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/thousand-island-dressing