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Synonyms for sauce

Grammar : Noun
Spell : saws
Phonetic Transcription : sɔs

Définition of sauce

Origin :
  • mid-14c., from Old French sauce, sausse, from Latin salsa "things salted, salt food," noun use of fem. singular or neuter plural of adjective salsus "salted," from past participle of Old Latin sallere "to salt," from sal (genitive salis) "salt" (see salt (n.)).
  • Meaning "something which adds piquancy to words or actions" is recorded from c.1500; sense of "impertinence" first recorded 1835 (see saucy, and cf. sass). Slang meaning "liquor" first attested 1940.
  • noun condiment
Example sentences :
  • What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander: take that in your thought too.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • Add the remainder of the celery and pour the sauce over this.
  • Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 2 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • Pears are most valuable when they are canned and used for sauce.
  • Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 5 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • The sauce to use depends on the dessert that it is to accompany.
  • Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • Beat the whites stiff and fold them carefully into the sauce.
  • Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 2 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • "Take that for your sauce," he said, giving me a thrust with his sword, as he spoke.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.
  • Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
  • This sauce may be served up with poultry, game, or beef-steaks.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • This sauce can be made with essence of truffle, or game, or shallot.
  • Extract from : « The Cook's Decameron: A Study in Taste: » by Mrs. W. G. Waters
  • Then add three tablespoonsful of vinegar and reduce the sauce.
  • Extract from : « The Cook's Decameron: A Study in Taste: » by Mrs. W. G. Waters

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