any preparation, usually liquid or semiliquid, eaten as a gravy or as a relish accompanying food.
stewed fruit, often puréed and served as an accompaniment to meat, dessert, or other food: cranberry sauce.
something that adds piquance or zest.
Informal. sauciness; impertinence; impudence.
Slang.Usually the sauce . hard liquor: He's on the sauce again.
Archaic. garden vegetables eaten with meat.
verb (used with object),sauced,sauc·ing.
to dress or prepare with sauce; season: meat well sauced.
to make a sauce of: Tomatoes must be sauced while ripe.
to give piquance or zest to.
to make agreeable or less harsh.
Informal. to speak impertinently or saucily to.
Origin of sauce
First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English, from Middle French, from Late Latin salsa, noun use of feminine of Latin salsus “salted,” past participle of sallere “to salt,” derivative of sāl “salt”; see also salt1
OTHER WORDS FROM sauce
sauceless,adjectiveo·ver·sauce,verb (used with object),o·ver·sauced,o·ver·sauc·ing.
The latter was a macrobiotics company established in 1961 that got its start importing products like soy sauce from Japan and that eventually developed brown rice cakes in the 1970s — the prototype for the larger snack trend.
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We have a lab where we have focused on making mostly fermented products ranging from hot sauces to salts to soy sauce and versions of miso.
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After all, without that secret sauce, an outright buy becomes a lot less desirable.
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While designed to mist out oils, the dispenser can also be used for many different seasonings, such as vinegars, soy sauce, lime juice and more.
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From September 8 until October 4, McDonald’s will be serving the Please Millennials and Gen Z, Take Some Interest in Us Meal “Travis Scott Meal,” which consists of a quarter pounder with cheese, bacon and lettuce, a Sprite, and fries with BBQ sauce.
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Continue to cook until the sauce has reduced by three quarters.
Make Carla Hall’s Roasted Pork Loin With Cranberries|Carla Hall|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Finish the sauce by putting the roasting pan on the stovetop over medium-high heat.
Make Carla Hall’s Roasted Pork Loin With Cranberries|Carla Hall|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The future congressman also had some spaghetti but no sauce.
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Now you can scroll to the next direction on your recipe without getting batter or sauce all over your device.
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“I think everything is about sauce… chicken is just chicken,” she says.
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This swinging in the pan dissolves the flavor, which solidifies in the bottom of the pan; it greatly improves the sauce.
American Cookery|Various
The little bits left from the decoration are chopped and used in the salpicon or in a sauce.
The Century Cook Book|Mary Ronald
"What's sauce fo' the goose ought to be sauce fo' the gander," argued the ex-moonshiner.
A Tar-Heel Baron|Mabell Shippie Clarke Pelton
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander (Was also dem Einen recht ist, muss dem Andern billig sein).
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume III (of 3)|Alexander Wheelock Thayer
These may also be served with plain sauce, or with Sauce Bechamel.
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British Dictionary definitions for sauce
sauce
/ (sɔːs) /
noun
any liquid or semiliquid preparation eaten with food to enhance its flavour
anything that adds piquancy
US and Canadianstewed fruit
USdialectvegetables eaten with meat
informalimpudent language or behaviour
verb(tr)
to prepare (food) with sauce
to add zest to
to make agreeable or less severe
informalto be saucy to
Derived forms of sauce
sauceless, adjective
Word Origin for sauce
C14: via Old French from Latin salsus salted, from salīre to sprinkle with salt, from sal salt