To serve one the same sauce
- To serve one the same sauce
- 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.
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High sauces and rich spices fetched from the Indies.
--Sir S.
Baker.
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2. Any garden vegetables eaten with meat. [Prov. Eng. &
Colloq. U.S.] --Forby. Bartlett.
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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.
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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).
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4. Sauciness; impertinence. [Low.] --Haliwell.
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{To serve one the same sauce}, to retaliate in the same kind.
[Vulgar]
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2000.
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