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Worcester sauce

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noun

  1. a commercially prepared piquant sauce, made from a basis of soy sauce, with vinegar, spices, etc

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Whoever thinks this an exaggeration, let him take a teaspoonful of Worcester sauce in his mouth and begin to eat.

From Time Magazine Archive

Excess salt eating dulls the finer sensibilities of taste just as excess pepper or Worcester sauce or mustard does.

From Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep by Hunter, William Crosbie

Heat again before serving, and season with pepper, salt, and Worcester sauce, according to taste.

From Recipes Tried and True by Presbyterian Ladies' Aid

A friend of mine puts a lot of cayenne pepper and mustard and Worcester sauce on toasted cheese; obviously he has a dull palate.

From Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" by Spence, Edward Fordham

Oh yes, and then we asked him to drink old Clausewitz's health, as a brother-tactician, in milk-punch and Worcester sauce, and so on.

From A Diversity of Creatures by Kipling, Rudyard

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