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sauce-alone|ˈsɔːsəˌləʊn|
[app. f. sauce n. + alone, implying that the plant serves as a sufficient sauce by itself.]
The plant Sisymbrium Alliaria, a tall hedge-weed formerly used as a flavouring for salads and sauces.
1530Palsgr. 265/2 Sauce alone an herbe. 1548Turner Names Herbes (E.D.S.) 82 Alliaria is called in english Sauce alone or Iacke of the hedges. 1579Langham Gard. Health (1633) 592 Sausalone: It is vsed of some instead of Garlike. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. cclxvii. 650 Sauce alone, or Jack by the hedge... Diuers eate the stamped leaues heerof with salt fish, for a sauce. 1699Evelyn Acetaria 29 Sauce-alone has many Medicinal Properties. 1785Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxiii. (1794) 323 The garlick-smelling [species of Erysimum], called thence Sauce-alone,..has heart-shaped leaves. 1896J. Davidson Fleet St. Eclogues Ser. ii. 93 And white the lady-smocks a-row And sauce-alone in the hedge. |