sauce

[sauce]

A sauce is a nearly liquid or soft topping or condiment for food. You might prefer your spaghetti with tomato sauce and your broccoli with cheese sauce.

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A composition of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish; especially, a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings; as, mint sauce; sweet sauce, etc.

Noun
flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food

Verb
add zest or flavor to, make more interesting; "sauce the roast"

Verb
dress (food) with a relish

Verb
behave saucy or impudently towards


n.
A composition of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish; especially, a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings; as, mint sauce; sweet sauce, etc.

n.
Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.

n.
Stewed or preserved fruit eaten with other food as a relish; as, apple sauce, cranberry sauce, etc.

n.
Sauciness; impertinence.

v. t.
To accompany with something intended to give a higher relish; to supply with appetizing condiments; to season; to flavor.

v. t.
To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate; hence, to cover, mingle, or dress, as if with sauce; to make an application to.

v. t.
To make poignant; to give zest, flavor or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.

v. t.
To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.

n.
A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.


Sauce

Sauce , n. [F., fr. OF. sausse, LL. salsa, properly, salt pickle, fr. L. salsus salted, salt, p.p. of salire to salt, fr. sal salt. See Salt, and cf. Saucer, Souse pickle, Souse to plunge.] 1. A composition of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish; especially, a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings; as, mint sauce; sweet sauce, etc. "Poignant sauce." Chaucer.
High sauces and rich spices fetched from the Indies.
2. Any garden vegetables eaten with meat. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] Forby. Bartlett.
Roots, herbs, vine fruits, and salad flowers . . . they dish up various ways, and find them very delicious sauce to their meats, both roasted and boiled, fresh and salt.
3. Stewed or preserved fruit eaten with other food as a relish; as, apple sauce, cranberry sauce, etc. [U.S.] "Stewed apple sauce." Mrs. Lincoln (Cook Book). 4. Sauciness; impertinence. [Low.] Haliwell. To serve one the same sauce, to retaliate in the same kind. [Vulgar]

Sauce

Sauce , v. t. [Cf. F. saucer.] [imp. & p. p. Sauced ; p. pr. & vb. n. Saucing .] 1. To accompany with something intended to give a higher relish; to supply with appetizing condiments; to season; to flavor. 2. To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate; hence, to cover, mingle, or dress, as if with sauce; to make an application to. [R.]
Earth, yield me roots; Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate With thy most operant poison!
3. To make poignant; to give zest, flavor or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.
Then fell she to sauce her desires with threatenings.
4. To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or sancy to. [Colloq. or Low]
I'll sauce her with bitter words.

Sauce

Sauce , n. [F.] (Fine Art) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.

A composition of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish; especially, a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings; as, mint sauce; sweet sauce, etc.

A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.

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Usage Examples

When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce.

I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony!

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Other Usage Examples

When you cut that eggplant up and you roast it in the oven and you make the tomato sauce and you put it on top, your soul is in that food, and there's something about that that can never be made by a company that has three million employees.

When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar.

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