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duck sauce

duck sauce noun: a spiced fruit-based condiment with a sweet-and-sour flavour and a translucent orange appearance, served with duck and other dishes at Chinese-American restaurants.

Noun

duck sauce (usually uncountable, plural duck sauces)

  1. (usually) A spiced fruit-based condiment with a sweet-and-sour flavour and a translucent orange appearance, served with duck and other dishes at Chinese-American restaurants.

Forms of duck sauce

pluralduck sauces

Questions about duck sauce

What does duck sauce mean?
Duck sauce means a spiced fruit-based condiment with a sweet-and-sour flavour and a translucent orange appearance, served with duck and other dishes at Chinese-American restaurants.
What part of speech is duck sauce?
Duck sauce is a noun.
What is the plural of duck sauce?
The plural of duck sauce is duck sauces.

Words near duck sauce in the dictionary

  1. duck potatoes
  2. duck press
  3. duck presses
  4. duck race
  5. duck races
  6. duck sauce
  7. duck sauces
  8. duck shoot
  9. duck shoots
  10. duck snort
  11. duck snorts

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