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mother sauce

mother sauce noun: a basic sauce from which many further sauces can be derived by making minor changes or additions to the ingredients; singular of mother sauces.

Noun

mother sauce (plural mother sauces)

  1. A basic sauce from which many further sauces can be derived by making minor changes or additions to the ingredients; singular of mother sauces.

Forms of mother sauce

pluralmother sauces

Questions about mother sauce

What does mother sauce mean?
Mother sauce means a basic sauce from which many further sauces can be derived by making minor changes or additions to the ingredients; singular of mother sauces.
What part of speech is mother sauce?
Mother sauce is a noun.
What is the plural of mother sauce?
The plural of mother sauce is mother sauces.

Words near mother sauce in the dictionary

  1. mother of thousands
  2. mother of vinegar
  3. mother plant
  4. mother plants
  5. Mother Russia
  6. mother sauce
  7. mother sauces
  8. mother ship
  9. mother ships
  10. mother superior
  11. mother superiors

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