DCHP-1 Online

sauce † Hist.

• 1 n. stewed or preserved fruit, pumpkin, etc.

  See also: short sauce   

  • Earlier dialectal variants current in North America account for such forms as sarce [sas] and sass [sæs], which occur frequently in writings of the 19th century. The term doubtless came to Canada in these meanings along with settlers from the New England speech area.

• 2 n. dried apples, hung on strings in colonial days. See 1926 quote at def. 1.

  See also: paring bee