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peach sauce

peach sauce

2.3
A sweet sauce made from peaches used to add flavor to food
  • noun
translation icon : salsa de durazno
  • For dessert, serve vanilla ice cream topped with warm peach sauce.

Examples

  • Okay, why don't we just take a break, and I'll whip up the house special, my world-famous jalapeño pancakes with peach sauce?

    Psycho Beach Party (2000)

  • Spoon peach sauce over pancakes for a delightful breakfast treat.

  • The chef drizzled peach sauce on grilled chicken to enhance the flavor.

Surface Forms

peach sauce singular
peach sauces plural

Morphology

peach + sauce

The meaning 'a sweet sauce made from peaches' is directly and compositionally derived from 'peach' (the fruit) + 'sauce' (a condiment). This noun+noun food-compound pattern is common cross-linguistically and requires no idiomatic knowledge, so a B1 learner who knows both words would understand it.

Etymology

Peach sauce comes from a simple image: cooks mash sweet peach fruit and heat it into a smooth sauce you can pour or use as a dip. Because people often serve it with roast meat or rolls, the name now means 'a sweet sauce made from peaches' used as a 'condiment'.