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Definition of Sauce
1. Noun. Flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food.
Generic synonyms: Condiment
Specialized synonyms: Anchovy Sauce, Hot Sauce, Hard Sauce, Horseradish Sauce, Sauce Albert, Tartar Sauce, Tartare Sauce, Wine Sauce, Marchand De Vin, Mushroom Wine Sauce, Bread Sauce, Plum Sauce, Peach Sauce, Apricot Sauce, Pesto, Ravigote, Ravigotte, Remoulade Sauce, Dressing, Salad Dressing, Aioli, Aioli Sauce, Garlic Sauce, Barbecue Sauce, Hollandaise, Bearnaise, Bercy, Bercy Butter, Bordelaise, Bourguignon, Bourguignon Sauce, Burgundy Sauce, Brown Sauce, Sauce Espagnole, Espagnole, Sauce Espagnole, Brown Sauce, Chinese Brown Sauce, Chocolate Sauce, Chocolate Syrup, Cocktail Sauce, Seafood Sauce, Colbert, Colbert Butter, Bechamel, Bechamel Sauce, White Sauce, Demi-glaze, Demiglace, Gravy, Pasta Sauce, Spaghetti Sauce, Mole, Hunter's Sauce, Sauce Chausseur, Mushroom Sauce, Mustard Sauce, Nantua, Shrimp Sauce, Hungarian Sauce, Paprika Sauce, Pepper Sauce, Poivrade, Smitane, Soubise, White Onion Sauce, Brown Onion Sauce, Lyonnaise Sauce, Veloute, Allemande, Allemande Sauce, Caper Sauce, Poulette, Curry Sauce, Worcester Sauce, Worcestershire, Worcestershire Sauce, Snail Butter, Newburg Sauce
2. Verb. Behave saucily or impudently towards.
3. Verb. Dress (food) with a relish.
4. Verb. Add zest or flavor to, make more interesting. "Sauce the roast"
Definition of Sauce
1. 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.
2. v. t. To accompany with something intended to give a higher relish; to supply with appetizing condiments; to season; to flavor.
3. n. A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
Definition of Sauce
1. to season with sauce (a flavorful liquid dressing) [v SAUCED, SAUCING, SAUCES]
Medical Definition of Sauce
1. 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." "High sauces and rich spices fetched from the Indies." (Sir S. Baker) 2. Any garden vegetables eaten with meat. "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." (Beverly) 3. Stewed or preserved fruit eaten with other food as a relish; as, apple sauce, cranberry sauce, etc. "Stewed apple sauce." 4. Sauciness; impertinence. To serve one the same sauce, to retaliate in the same kind. Origin: 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sauce
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