chocolate sauce
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- noun
- /ˈtʃɔkəlɪt sɔs/
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salsa de chocolate
- The steak came with an egg, fries, and a complicated mix of some sort of warm-weather vegetables, and the ice cream came with hot chocolate sauce and nuts.
- ice cream with chocolate sauce
They have their white mocha espresso, white chocolate sauce and chocolate milk.
- They have their white mocha espresso, white chocolate sauce and chocolate milk.
Examples
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The man said something to the waiter, who came back a few minutes later with two huge dishes of ice cream smothered in whipped cream and chocolate sauce.
Fiction book (2001) -
Remember when an ice cream sundae was just two scoops of ice cream, chocolate sauce, and maybe a banana or sprinkle of candy on top?
Blog text (3) -
ice cream with chocolate sauce
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And then you can top it with some chocolate sauce or some fruit like I am here.
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It's a Mexican chocolate sauce.
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Anyhow...do you know where the chocolate sauce is?
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The dessert course was a panna cotta with a very nice chocolate sauce.
Blog text (23) -
The Death by Chocolate is a rectangular slice of chocolate cake drenched in chocolate sauce.
Blog text (24) -
In a cafe, surrounded by elderly ladies eating confections with long spoons, the narrator orders a concoction of ice cream and chocolate sauce and watches as it melts imperceptibly.
Academic text (1997) -
You can pour warm chocolate sauce over your ice cream for a delicious dessert.
Synonyms
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A sweet, thick chocolate sauce for pouring on desserts and mixing into drinks
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A thick chocolate sauce served hot over desserts like ice cream
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Thick hot chocolate that you pour over ice cream
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Morphology
The meaning 'a sweet sauce made from chocolate' is directly and predictably derived from combining 'chocolate' (the ingredient) with 'sauce' (a liquid/semi-liquid condiment). This noun–noun/attributive pattern is common in English and other languages (e.g. 'salsa de chocolate'), so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the expression.
Etymology
Chocolate sauce comes from the simple idea of a 'sauce' made with chocolate, a sweet mix that you can pour over desserts. So it means a liquid chocolate 'topping' you put on ice cream or cake.