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† gansel Obs.
Forms: 5 gauncely(e, gawncel(y, gaunsell(e, 5, 8–9 Sc. gansell.
[ad. OF. ganse aillie garlic-sauce, f. ganse, janse, app. meaning some kind of sauce (jause also occurs, riming with sauce) + aillie some kind of derivative from ail garlic. In later Fr. jance d'aulx is used in the same sense.]
A garlic sauce, used esp. for goose.
c1420Liber Cocorum (1862) 29 Gawncel for þe gose. Take garlek and grynde hit wele forþy [etc.]. c1430Two Cookery-bks. 23 Hennys in Gauncelye.—Take hennys an roste hem, take mylke an Garleke an grynd it. 1483Cath. Angl. 152/1 Gavnselle, applauda.
b. fig. in proverbial use.
c1450Henryson Mor. Fab. 14 Thy goose is good, thy gansell sowre as gall. 1721Kelly Scot. Prov. 30 A good Goose, but she has an ill gansel. |