sauce

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  1. noun A flavorful seasoning or relish served as an accompaniment to food, especially a liquid dressing or topping for food.
  2. noun Stewed fruit, usually served with other foods.
  3. noun Something that adds zest, flavor, or piquancy.
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  • ‘You haven’t said as when the sauce was all finished and ready you tried it yourself to see was it what you called “up to sample,” cook How much of it did you eat?’ asked Dame Beatrice, ‘Does it matter? —  Mingled With Venom-Gladys Mitchell-Bradley 54
  • Essentially ground chili peppers with a few other ingredients to round out the palate, this sauce is absolutely devastating with rice or any other tomato based pasta dish. —  Kit Up
  • Simmer the curry until the sauce is as thick as you want it to be. —  Tigers & Strawberries
  • The marinara sauce was achingly fresh, with the smell of fresh strips of basil just wafting up to your nose as you took a bite. —  sweetnicks.com
  • If it seems too thick to act like a sauce (it should be about the consistency of spaghetti sauce, IMHO), add another can of tomato sauce or a splash of red wine or some beef broth or milk to achieve the desired sauce-likeness. —  pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
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butter ·  soup ·  salad ·  onion ·  cheese ·  pie ·  gravy ·  vinegar ·  jelly ·  syrup ·  slice ·  paste

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *salsa, from Latin, feminine of salsus, past participle of sallere, to salt; see sal- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also dial. sass; early modern English also sawce; from Middle English sauce, sause, sawce, sawse, salse = Dutch saus (later English souse) = G. Danish sauce = Swedish sauce, sås, from Old French sauce, sause, sausse, salce, saulce, saulse, French sauce = Provencal Spanish Portuguese Italian salsa, from Middle Latin salsa, feminine (also, after Roman, salcia), sauce, from Latin salsa, things salted, salt food (cf. aqua salsa, salted water), neuter plural of salsus, past participle of salire, salt, from sal, salt: see salt. Cf. sausage, saucer, souse, from the same source.
  2. Early modern English also sawce; from Middle English sawcen, sausen, from Old French saucier, saucer, French saucer, sauce; from the noun.
 

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