hard sauce

noun

A rich sweet dessert sauce for puddings, made by creaming or beating butter and sugar with rum, brandy, whiskey, sherry, vanilla, or other flavourings.

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Meanings

nounhard sauce (countable and uncountable, plural hard sauces)

plural hard sauces

  1. countableuncountableA rich sweet dessert sauce for puddings, made by creaming or beating butter and sugar with rum, brandy, whiskey, sherry, vanilla, or other flavourings.
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APA

hard sauce. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hard%20sauce

MLA

“hard sauce.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hard%20sauce. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hard sauce,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hard%20sauce.

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