Jump to content

sauce Robert

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

[edit]
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Noun

[edit]

sauce Robert (uncountable)

  1. A sauce prepared from chopped onions and mustard.
    • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIII, in Romance and Reality. [], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, [], →OCLC, page 305:
      Adelaide was too quick-sighted not to perceive that Miss Arundel, when she first saw her talking to Lorraine, wore a very different air from Miss Arundel listening to Merton; and a rival was the sauce Robert, which would have made her not eat, but flirt with her grandfather.

Alternative forms

[edit]