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pepper sauce

pepper sauce

2 2.8
A sauce with a lot of black pepper served with meat like steak
  • noun
  • /ˈpɛpər sɔs/
translation icon : salsa de pimienta
  • She loved to drizzle pepper sauce over her grilled vegetables for extra flavor.
  • hot pepper sauce
  • red pepper sauce
  • garlic pepper sauce

Examples

  • This baked spaghetti squash with creamy roasted red pepper sauce is healthy, but tastes like a comforting pasta dish.

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  • It is so good plain, but I decided to go wild and make a simple creamy roasted red pepper sauce to go with the baked spaghetti squash.

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  • That mushroom pepper sauce is bonkers good.

  • Kelly chose the grilled lamb with balsamic-black pepper sauce.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • Love your recipe and can't wait to try it with that yummy roasted red pepper sauce!

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  • While the squash is baking, make the creamy roasted red pepper sauce.

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  • Top the spaghetti squash with the creamy roasted red pepper sauce and serve warm.

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  • I topped the baked spaghetti squash with a creamy roasted red pepper sauce.

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  • Crazy Legs starts in on the Malibu Oysters—six thick, broiled specimens covered with cheese and pepper sauce.

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  • The chef prepared a delicious venison steak served with a spicy pepper sauce on the side.

Synonyms

poivrade
vspepper sauce
  • Specialized
9.9

A French sauce for meat like deer or duck made with browned vegetables and lots of pepper

has the same meaning but is the English common name

How Spicy

hot sauce
34 1.0
pepper sauce
2 2.8
mild-tasting
1 3.4

Surface Forms

pepper sauce singular
pepper sauces plural

Morphology

pepper + sauce

The noun phrase denotes a sauce made from or flavored with pepper, so its meaning is directly compositional from 'pepper' + 'sauce'. This is a common, cross-linguistic naming pattern (e.g. 'salsa de pimienta'), so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

Pepper sauce comes from the simple idea of a sauce made with lots of pepper. Picture a warm sauce poured over meat with heavy black pepper to give a sharp, spicy taste, so the name means 'a sauce with a strong pepper taste'.