apple sauce
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- noun
- /ˈæpəl sɔs/
:
puré de manzana
- The Pig in a Poke does a nice hog roast in a bun with apple sauce.
- apple sauce over roast
- served with apple sauce
- make apple sauce
Examples
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No apple sauce?
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Do you want some apple sauce?
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I told you we should have apple sauce.
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Plain roast goose without apple sauce has always been good enough for me.
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Ruprecht, eat your apple sauce.
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I also make apple sauce and apple butter, but I hate throwing out the peels.
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Yes, apple sauce.
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We don't want to eat pork rolls at a stall, even with apple sauce.
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Where's the apple sauce?
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Would you like some apple sauce with your pork chop?
Synonyms
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A sweet sauce made from cooked apples often mixed with sugar and spices
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Morphology
The meaning 'a sweetened and often spiced puree made from cooked apples' is directly and compositionally derived from 'apple' + 'sauce' — i.e. a sauce made from apples. This noun+noun compound follows a common, cross-linguistically frequent pattern and would be immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Apple sauce comes from the simple idea of the parts apple and sauce: cooks would stew and mash apples into a soft, sweet sauce to serve with meat or give to children. That's why apple sauce today means 'a sweet, smooth puree made from cooked apples'.