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sauce Louis

sauce Louis

7.2
A creamy sauce of mayonnaise and cream with chopped green pepper and onion, flavored with chili, Worcestershire sauce, and lemon
  • noun
  • US
translation icon : salsa Louis
  • The chef prepared a tangy sauce Louis to accompany the fresh seafood platter.

Examples

  • The crab salad was topped with a generous portion of sauce Louis.

  • She prefers shrimp served with sauce Louis rather than cocktail sauce.

  • This dish is served with sauce Louis.

  • I love sauce Louis on my seafood.

  • The chef prepared a tangy sauce Louis to accompany the fresh seafood platter.

  • The crab salad was topped with a generous portion of sauce Louis.

  • She prefers shrimp served with sauce Louis rather than cocktail sauce.

Surface Forms

sauce Louis singular
sauces Louis plural

Morphology

sauce + Louis

While 'sauce' tells a learner this is a condiment, 'Louis' is a personal name with no descriptive semantic content, so knowing the constituents does not allow a B1 learner to infer the specific creamy, mayonnaise- and cream-based composition. This is an eponymous dish name whose ingredients are arbitrary rather than compositional, making the meaning unpredictable from its parts.

Etymology

Sauce Louis may come from a simple kitchen story: one popular story says a chef named Louis mixed mayonnaise, cream and spices to pour over shrimp and crab, and people started calling the mix by his name. That's why sauce Louis means a creamy, tangy 'seafood sauce' today.