mother sauce

noun

A basic sauce from which many further sauces can be derived by making minor changes or additions to the ingredients; singular of mother sauces.

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Meanings

nounmother sauce (plural mother sauces)

plural mother sauces

  1. A basic sauce from which many further sauces can be derived by making minor changes or additions to the ingredients; singular of mother sauces.
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APA

mother sauce. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mother%20sauce

MLA

“mother sauce.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mother%20sauce. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mother sauce,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mother%20sauce.

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