Meanings
nounsawce (countable and uncountable, plural sawces)
plural sawces
- countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete spelling of sauce.
Thou art all for inlandish meat, and outlandish sawces […]
1657, Thomas Reeve, (Please provide the book title or journal name)1 more example
Thy wit is a very Bitter-ſweeting, / It is a moſt ſharpe ſawce.
c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], page 62
verbsawce (third-person singular simple present sawces, present participle sawcing, simple past and past participle sawced)
present singular third person sawces · participle present sawcing · participle past sawced · past sawced
- obsoleteObsolete spelling of sauce.
Meales, uſually ſavvced vvith a healthfull hunger, vvherein no incocted Crudities oppreſſe Nature, and cheriſh diſeaſe: […]
1645, Jos[eph] Hall, “Sect[ion] XII. Consideration of the Benefits of Poverty.”, in The Remedy of Discontentment: Or, A Treatise of Contentation in whatsoever Condition: […], London: […] J. G. for Nath[aniel] Brooks, […], published 1652, →OCLC, page 61
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