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Sauce Sɔːs Chicken White Noun Bre Tomato/Cranberry/Chilli Ice

Word sauce
WordType (noun)
Phonetic BrE / sɔːs / NAmE / sɔːs /
Example
  • tomato/cranberry/chilli, etc. sauce
  • chicken in a white sauce
  • ice cream with a hot fudge sauce
  • pour the sauce over the pasta.
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sauce

(noun)BrE / sɔːs / NAmE / sɔːs /
  1. a thick liquid that is eaten with food to add flavour to it
    • see also soy sauce
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/soy-sauce
    • tomato/cranberry/chilli, etc. sauce
    • chicken in a white sauce
    • ice cream with a hot fudge sauce
  2. talk or behaviour that is annoying or lacking in respect
    • synonym cheek
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/cheek_1
  3. what one person is allowed to do, another person must be allowed to do in a similar situation
  4. Extra Examples

    • Pour the sauce over the pasta.
    • We had lamb with mint sauce.
    • chicken in peanut sauce
    • chicken in white wine sauce

    Word Origin

    • Middle English: from Old French, based on Latin salsus ‘salted’, past participle of salere ‘to salt’, from sal ‘salt’. Compare with salad.
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