Mayonnaise, a thick cold sauce for salads, cold meat, poultry, fish, vegetables, &c., made of the yolk of eggs, salad-oil, and vinegar, with a little salt, cayenne pepper, and meat-jelly; it is sometimes coloured red with powdered lobster coral, or green with spinach or parsley.
Mayonnaise
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 103
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