To serve one the same sauce
(gcide) | 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.
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