mogul sauce
- noun
- Archaic
:
salsa mogul
- Burgess’s mogul sauce was once a staple of 19th-century English dining tables.
Examples
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Old British cookbooks often recommend mogul sauce as a flavorful addition to roast beef.
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The chef recreated a Victorian recipe using mogul sauce to evoke traditional flavors.
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I love adding mogul sauce to my grilled steak.
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Have you ever tried mogul sauce with chicken?
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Old British cookbooks often recommend mogul sauce as a flavorful addition to roast beef.
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Burgess’s mogul sauce was once a staple of 19th-century English dining tables.
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I love adding mogul sauce to my grilled steak.
Synonyms
3
5.1
A dark, tangy sauce made from vinegar and spices used to add savory flavor to food
A dark, strong sauce made from vinegar and spices to add flavour to food
A savory dark sauce made from beef stock thickened with butter and flour and served with roast meat
A brown French sauce with mushrooms, tomato and white wine served with meat
A rich brown sauce with mushrooms, onions, tomato, and white wine for meat
How Strong
34
1.0
- US
1
1.0
- Archaic
3
5.1
95
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
mogul + sauce
Although 'sauce' is transparent, the element 'mogul' does not convey the sensory or culinary properties of a dark spiced condiment and here functions as a proper name/brand or historical attribution. The overall meaning is lexicalized and culture- or product-specific, so a B1 learner knowing the parts would not reliably infer it refers to a Worcestershire-like meat sauce.
Etymology
The noun mogul sauce may come from the name mogul, used for the Mughal rulers of India, who were known for rich, spicy cooking. English makers used Indian spices to make a dark sauce, so the name stuck and today mogul sauce means 'a dark, spiced sauce served with meat'.