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  • noun Alternative spelling of applesauce.

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Examples

  • I hated her when it was late at night and she cried while we were finally having a good time, or when her voice cracked with emotion over her apple-sauce that she refused to eat if there were lumps.

    The Adults Alison Espach 2011

  • I hated her when it was late at night and she cried while we were finally having a good time, or when her voice cracked with emotion over her apple-sauce that she refused to eat if there were lumps.

    The Adults Alison Espach 2011

  • McCAIN '08: "Maybe the apple-sauce has gone to his head."

    New McCain Ad: "Maybe The Applause Has Gone To His Head" 2009

  • At each, there are a great many small dishes and plates upon the table, with very little in them; so that although there is every appearance of a mighty ‘spread,’ there is seldom really more than a joint: except for those who fancy slices of beet-root, shreds of dried beef, complicated entanglements of yellow pickle; maize, Indian corn, apple-sauce, and pumpkin.

    American Notes for General Circulation 2007

  • My mother has always made apple-sauce cake for this I think from considerations of taste alone, rather than tradition, since it's an American recipe.

    Christmas Cake (an escape to warmer climes) 2007

  • Add baking soda to apple-sauce and combine with sugar mixture.

    Fat is Not Your Fate Susan Mitchell Ph.D. 2005

  • Add baking soda to apple-sauce and combine with sugar mixture.

    Fat is Not Your Fate Susan Mitchell Ph.D. 2005

  • “Do you really think so?” yearned Raymie, across the apple-sauce.

    Main Street 2004

  • My rank as a general and my fame have robbed me for ever of cabbage-soup and savoury pies, and goose with apple-sauce, and bream with boiled grain.

    The Wife 2004

  • The third service was made up of a loin of fresh pork, with apple-sauce, a kid smothered with onions, and a terrapin baked in the shell; and last of all, a prodigious sea-pie was presented, with an infinite volume of pancakes and fritters.

    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

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