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Definition of Sauce

Sauce

  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.
  2. Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.
  3. Stewed or preserved fruit eaten with other food as a relish; as, apple sauce, cranberry sauce, etc.
  4. Sauciness; impertinence.
  5. To accompany with something intended to give a higher relish; to supply with appetizing condiments; to season; to flavor.
  6. 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.
  7. To make poignant; to give zest, flavor or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.
  8. To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.
  9. A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.

Sauce Quotations

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.
Anton Chekhov

He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
Xenophon

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

I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white wine. And then we had one of those lovely scalloped dishes and the lovely, creamery buttery sauce. Then we had a roast duck and I don't know what else.
Julia Child

If kids can learn how to make a simple Bolognese sauce, they will never go hungry. It's pretty easy to cook pasta, but a good sauce is way more useful.
Emeril Lagasse
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Sauce Translations

sauce in Afrikaans is sous
sauce in Danish is sauce
sauce in Dutch is jus, sop, saus
sauce in Finnish is kastike
sauce in French is sauce
sauce in Italian is guazzetto
sauce in Norwegian is saus
sauce in Portuguese is molho
sauce in Spanish is salsa

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