Etymology

aurora sauce

Today it means: A kind of creamy tomato sauce. Full definition →

French sauce aurore
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  1. French · calque ofsauce aurore
  2. English todayaurora sauce

Calque of French sauce aurore, named from its reddish colour.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.