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† saucefleme, n. and a. Obs.
Forms: 4 sawcefleem, 4, 6 sausfleme, 5 sawflom, salce-, salfleme, sawse-, sawceflewm(e, sauseflem(e, 6 sawce-, salsefle(a)gme, sawce-, sauce-, sausfleume, sawsfleam, -flame, 7 sauce-, sausfleame, sauceflegme, 5–6 saucefleme. See also sauceline.
[a. OF. sausefleme, semi-popular ad. med.L. salsum flegma ‘salt phlegm’; salsum, neut. of L. salsus salt, adj., flegma phlegm.]
A. n. A swelling of the face accompanied by inflammation, supposed to be due to salt humours.
Also in translated form salt fleume: cf. salt a.1 1 b.
[1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. lix. (1495) r vij, Carbunculus..comeþ of salte flewme.] a1400in Rel. Ant. I. 189 And on is in the mydde for-hevede, For lepre saus⁓fleme mot blede. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 4116 His face was deformed and bolnyd And with' rede salfleme suolnyd. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 71 Litle pymples or pushes, suche as of cholere and salsefleagme budden out in the noses and faces of many persones. 1586Lupton Thousand Not. Things (1675) 14 Scurviness, Sawsflame, or Redness of the face. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. cccxxvi. 765 Cucumber [thus prepared]..doth perfectly cure all manner of sawceflegme and copper faces. 1601Holland Pliny II. 113 The red pimples or sauce-flegme in the face.
B. adj. Afflicted with this disease.
c1386Chaucer Prol. 625 A Somonour was ther with vs in that place That hadde a fyr reed Cherubynnes face ffor sawcefleem he was with eyen narwe. 1542Boorde Dyetary x. (1870) 257 It [whey] doth purge redde colour, and is good for sausfleme faces. 1547― Brev. Health clxx, A sauce fleume face, which is a rednes about the nose and the chekes, with small pymples. 1639O. Wood Alph. Bk. Secrets 166 For a Red gum, or Sausfleame face old or new.
Hence † sauceflemed = saucefleme a. † saucefleming = saucefleme n.
a1450Knt. de la Tour 116 Wyne..makithe the uisage salce fleumed rede, and full of white whelkes. 1592in Vicary's Anat. (1888) App. ix. 229 Þe vayn..to opyn for þe..sauce-flemyng in the face. 1631R. Brathwait Whimzies, Piper 145 This sauce-fleamed porcupine..will bee many times monstrously malapert. |