Wiktionary
alt. A dish made primarily of chopped hard-boiled eggs and mayonnaise, often including other ingredients such as celery or mustard; it is frequently used as a sandwich spread. n. A dish made primarily of chopped hard-boiled eggs and mayonnaise, often including other ingredients such as celery or mustard; it is frequently used as a sandwich spread.
Wikipedia
Egg salad is part of a tradition of salads involving protein mixed with seasonings in the form of herbs, spices, and other foods, and bound with mayonnaise. Its siblings include chicken salad, crab salad, ham salad, lobster salad, and tuna salad.
Egg salad is often used as a sandwich filling, typically made of chopped hard-boiled eggs, mayonnaise, mustard, minced celery and onion, salt, black pepper, and paprika. It is also often used as a topping on green salad.
Usage examples of "egg salad".
They made them egg salad-and-walnut sandwiches so stuffed with filling the guys couldn't get their mouths around them, and slipped them extra brownies.
He pushed a bit of egg salad around his plate with the edge of a chip but didn’.
In the last few months of the war, White Castle turned to chili and egg salad, and even to bologna and let-tuce-and-tomato sandwiches.
Both the chili and egg salad sold moderately well but were immediately abandoned when the rationing ended.
It was a Saturday, and Ted was in the kitchen eating an egg salad sandwich.
Austin lifted his head off his paws and gazed across the dining room at Claire, who'd fallen asleep with her cheek on an egg salad sandwich.
That's why I'm going to make you a nice egg salad here, so I don't have to stand around watching my only son starve to death.
Reverend Swing knew that Star Dunstan had packed thousands of nourishing peanut-butter-and-jelly, tuna-fish, and egg salad sandwiches into the lunch box her son Ned carried to school.