fish-sauce

plural fish-sauces

1. countabledateduncountableDated form of fish sauce.

   I can’t say which is Thai in my painting, but I know I am influenced by what I see. It’s like eating — I can’t eat without fish-sauce or chilli.

   1991 September 13, Rebecca Lancashire, quoting Thaiwijit Puangkasemsomboon, “Thai artists find it hard to distinguish East from West”, in The Age, 137th year, number 42,522, Melbourne, Vic., →OCLC, page 14, column 2

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   The great reputation which Mr. BURGESS has gained by his Essence of Anchovies, and other Rich Sauces for Fish-Sauce, stewed Beef, hashed Calves Heads, Beef Steaks, Made Dishes, Wild Fowl, and Game, with many Delicacies for the Table, Side-board, and Store Room; […]

   1799 June 23, “A Caution to Families.—Burgess’s Essence of Anchovies.”, in The Observer, number 391, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, front page, column 2

   IF you have not yet tasted the Sauce, send for a jar, and also for a Bottle of the Oil—they only cost 1s. 6d. each; mix them together, according to the directions given, and you will have the most delicious Fish-sauce ever introduced into this country.

   1848 January 16, “The Stella Salad Oil and the Mandarin Pickle Sauce”, in Weekly Dispatch, number 2410, London, →OCLC, page 34, column 4