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Definition of Sauce
1. Noun. Flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food.
Generic synonyms: Condiment
Specialized synonyms: Anchovy Sauce, Hot Sauce, Hard Sauce, Horseradish Sauce, Sauce Albert, Tartar Sauce, Tartare Sauce, Wine Sauce, Marchand De Vin, Mushroom Wine Sauce, Bread Sauce, Plum Sauce, Peach Sauce, Apricot Sauce, Pesto, Ravigote, Ravigotte, Remoulade Sauce, Dressing, Salad Dressing, Aioli, Aioli Sauce, Garlic Sauce, Barbecue Sauce, Hollandaise, Bearnaise, Bercy, Bercy Butter, Bordelaise, Bourguignon, Bourguignon Sauce, Burgundy Sauce, Brown Sauce, Sauce Espagnole, Espagnole, Sauce Espagnole, Brown Sauce, Chinese Brown Sauce, Chocolate Sauce, Chocolate Syrup, Cocktail Sauce, Seafood Sauce, Colbert, Colbert Butter, Bechamel, Bechamel Sauce, White Sauce, Demi-glaze, Demiglace, Gravy, Pasta Sauce, Spaghetti Sauce, Mole, Hunter's Sauce, Sauce Chausseur, Mushroom Sauce, Mustard Sauce, Nantua, Shrimp Sauce, Hungarian Sauce, Paprika Sauce, Pepper Sauce, Poivrade, Smitane, Soubise, White Onion Sauce, Brown Onion Sauce, Lyonnaise Sauce, Veloute, Allemande, Allemande Sauce, Caper Sauce, Poulette, Curry Sauce, Worcester Sauce, Worcestershire, Worcestershire Sauce, Snail Butter, Newburg Sauce
2. Verb. Behave saucily or impudently towards.
3. Verb. Dress (food) with a relish.
4. Verb. Add zest or flavor to, make more interesting. "Sauce the roast"
Definition of Sauce
1. n. A composition of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish; especially, a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings; as, mint sauce; sweet sauce, etc.
2. v. t. To accompany with something intended to give a higher relish; to supply with appetizing condiments; to season; to flavor.
3. n. A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
Definition of Sauce
1. Noun. A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food ¹
2. Noun. cheek, impertinence ¹
3. Noun. (context: usually "the") booze, alcohol ¹
4. Noun. (bodybuilding) anabolic steroids ¹
5. Noun. (US slang 1800s) Vegetables. ¹
6. Noun. (arts) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump. ¹
7. Noun. (context: internet slang) Source; a term said when requesting the source of an image. ¹
8. Verb. to add sauce to something ¹
9. Verb. to act in a cheeky manner ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sauce
1. to season with sauce (a flavorful liquid dressing) [v SAUCED, SAUCING, SAUCES]
Medical Definition of Sauce
1. 1. A composition of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish; especially, a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings; as, mint sauce; sweet sauce, etc. "Poignant sauce." "High sauces and rich spices fetched from the Indies." (Sir S. Baker) 2. Any garden vegetables eaten with meat. "Roots, herbs, vine fruits, and salad flowers . . . They dish up various ways, and find them very delicious sauce to their meats, both roasted and boiled, fresh and salt." (Beverly) 3. Stewed or preserved fruit eaten with other food as a relish; as, apple sauce, cranberry sauce, etc. "Stewed apple sauce." 4. Sauciness; impertinence. To serve one the same sauce, to retaliate in the same kind. Origin: F, fr. OF. Sausse, LL. Salsa, properly, salt pickle, fr. L. Salsus salted, salt, p.p. Of salire to salt, fr. Sal salt. See Salt, and cf. Saucer, Souse pickle, Souse to plunge. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sauce
Literary usage of Sauce
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New System of Domestic Cookery: Formed Upon Principles of Economy and by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1824)
"Tomata sauce, in the French manner. Simmer the fruit with a little broth, salt,
and pepper, until it will pulp as above. If too thin, reduce it by boiling. ..."
2. The Home Cook Book: A Collection of Practical Receipts by Expert Cooks (1905)
"Test it by slipping in the pudding a thin knife. If the pudding does not stick
to the knife it is done. Serve with hard sauce. ..."
3. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"See also LONG sauce. —Mass, Spy, May 12. 1810 If you arc as fond of saner, iis I am.
you will plant more 1802 Here's a plenty of all sorts of sauce, ..."
4. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"To serve the same sauce. To retaliate : to give as good as you take ... After him
another came unto her, and served her with the вате sauce ; then » third . ..."
5. Modern Cookery, in All Its Branches: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice by Eliza Acton (1858)
"Our own sauce for Salad or cold Meat 104 Mayonnaise: (a very fine sauce fbr ...
Fennel sauce ib. Parsley and Butter 105 Gooseberry sauce for Mackerel ib. ..."
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