Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sauce seasoned with or containing capers: usually a white sauce.
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Examples
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He would paint in words (he was better in words than any other medium -- oil, water, or distemper) the boiled leg of mutton, not overdone; the mashed turnips; the mealy potato; the caper-sauce.
The Martian George Du Maurier 1865
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Did anybody ever find boiled mutton and caper-sauce growing in a cocoa-nut? '
Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 1841
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