vert sauce

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ver sauce, vertesaus, verde sawse, vertsaus, vertesause, verd-sawse, vert sawse
• (influenced by vergeous) verge sauce, vergesauce, vergesawce

Etymology

From vert +‎ sauce. Compare vergeous, which some forms are influenced by.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌvɛrtˈsau̯s(ə)/, /ˌvɛrdʒˈsau̯s(ə)/

Noun

vert sauce (uncountable)

1. A kind of green-coloured sauce incorporating wine and herbs.

References

• “vert-sauce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “verge-sauce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.