tomato-saucy

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1. With tomato sauce.

   Cheese-filled battered eggplant rolls with a tomato-saucy flair.

   1980, “[Vegetable Dishes and Casseroles] Eggplant Italiano”, in Yankee Church Supper Cookbook, Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale Press, published 1991, →ISBN, page 81

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   Up rises that sweet and tantalizing fragrance—the hot, spicy aroma of Heinz baked beans—slowly browned in heat flooded ovens. Flavor baked into them—flavor baked through and through them—from tender, golden skin to juicy, tomato-saucy center.

   1928 March, Ladies’ Home Journal, volume XLV, number 3, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Curtis Publishing Company, page 55

   Our Franks in Blankets—an outdoor treat loaded with small-fry appeal—owe their unusual zest to pickle-sweet, tomato-saucy Heinz Hamburger Relish . . .

   1960 June, “3 easy new ideas to make cook-outs more fun”, in Farm Journal, volume LXXXIV, number 6, Philadelphia, Pa.: Farm Journal Inc., page 66, column 1

   Max: I ordered a triple decker sandwich of cold cuts, not this tomato-saucy concoction!

   1990, Thomas L[ee] Veenendall, Marjorie C. Feinstein, Let’s Talk About Relationships: Cases in Study, Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press, →ISBN, page 51

   LeMat grinned: a rather disgusting cheesy-and-tomato-saucy sight.

   1995, Bruce Bethke, Headcrash, New York, N.Y.: Warner Books, →ISBN, page 170

   I’ve already braved a completely (thankfully) unconvincing Jack the Ripper scene in Madame T’s Chamber of Horrors – with Mitre Square and Catherine Eddowes’ tomato-saucy body shifted half a mile to right outside the Ten Bells pub – and it would never do to get my historical facts too confused with fiction.

   1998, Derek Hammond, London, England: A Day-Tripper’s Travelogue from the Coolest City in the World, Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, →ISBN, page 26

2. Resembling or characteristic of tomato sauce.

   Here’s tomato-saucy flavor kids can’t resist!

   1957 August 22, “Van Camp’s Beans with Pork”, in The Windsor Daily Star, volume 78, number 146, Windsor, Ont., page 7

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   Mrs. Vanucci even kissed me and hugged me close to her ample, warm, tomato-saucy bosom.

   1998, Patricia Johnson Eilola, A Finntown of the Heart, St. Cloud, Minn.: North Star Press of St. Cloud, Inc., →ISBN, page 42

   The smell of dead fish, rotting meat, and Italian spices washed over me. […] The fishy, tomato-saucy reek of the bears hung in the air like bad breath in an elevator.

   2006, Pete Hautman, Rash, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 91