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sauce-boat|ˈsɔːsbəʊt|
[boat n. 2 a.]
1. A small vessel with a lip, used for serving sauce.
1747H. Glasse Cookery 6 You may do Half the Quantity and put it into your Sauce-Boat or Bason. 1750H. Walpole Let. to Mann 1 Sept., For one article of the plate she ordered ten sauceboats. 1841Thackeray Sam. Titmarsh iv, I had..pretty nearly all the oysters out of the sauce-boat. 1892Encycl. Pract. Cookery (ed. Garrett), Sauceboats, small vessels of various shapes and designs in which sauce is served at table. In the illustrations the Sauceboats are served in the dish.
2. Archæol. A vessel of the Early Helladic and Early Cycladic cultures resembling a sauce-boat and prob. used for drinking or pouring liquids.
1967R. Higgins Minoan & Mycenean Art ii. 55 Sauceboats like the popular Mainland variety..were decorated with an all-over wash. Ibid. iii. 67 Favourite shapes are now the so-called ‘sauceboats’, a very common type whose function is unknown. Ibid. iii. 70 Only one form of gold or silver plate has been recorded from mainland Greece for this period. That form, known in two surviving examples, is a translation into gold of the common pottery ‘sauceboat’ shape. 1977G. Clark World Prehist. (ed. 3) iv. 157 Another unusual ceramic vessel common to the three areas is the sauce-boat which also occurs in Early Helladic Greece in gold. |