sawce
English
Noun
sawce (countable and uncountable, plural sawces)
- Obsolete form of sauce.
- 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:
- Thy wit is a very Bitter-ſweeting, / It is a moſt ſharpe ſawce.
- 1657, Thomas Reeve
- Thou art all for inlandish meat, and outlandish sawces […]
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Middle English
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