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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 235 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAUCE , flavouring or seasoning for See also:

food, usually in a liquid or semi-liquid See also:state, either served separately or mixed with the dish. The preparation of suitable sauces is one of the essentials of See also:good See also:cookery. The word comes through the Fr. from the See also:Lat. salsa, salted or pickled food (salire, to See also:season or sprinkle with sal, See also:salt). The same Latin word has also given " saucer," properly a dish for sauce, now a small See also:flat See also:plate with a depressed centre to hold a See also:cup and so prevent the spilling of liquid, and " sausage " (0. Fr. saulcisse, See also:Late Lat. salsicium), minced seasoned See also:meat, chiefly pork, stuffed into coverings of skin. The colloquial use of " saucy," impertinent, " cheeky" is an obvious transference from the tartness or pungency of a sauce, and has a respectable See also:literary ancestry; thus See also:Latimer (Misc.

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