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Worcester sauce

British  

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

Add any extra seasoning—a little ketchup, Worcester sauce, Marmite or Carnos Extract, &c.—also a spoonful of melted butter.

From Reform Cookery Book (4th edition) Up-To-Date Health Cookery for the Twentieth Century. by Mrs. (Jean Oliver) Mill

Curiously enough, in the Land of the Morning Calm they manufacture a sauce which is, so far as I could judge, identical in taste and colour with our well-known Worcester sauce.

From Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm by Arnold Henry Savage Landor

I was not in the least interested in him until he spoke to me—asked me to pass the Worcester sauce, in fact.

From The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles by Percy James Brebner

Note.—A small teaspoonful of Worcester sauce may be used instead of the pepper.

From New Vegetarian Dishes by Mrs. Bowdich

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