Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A preparation of tomatoes to he used as a dressing for meat.

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Examples

  • I remember sort of laughing at my own parents who used up every bit of everything, including rinsing out tomato-sauce cans and adding it to the soup, but later I found that because they did not have to go out and replace everything as quickly, they were able to save money.

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • I remember sort of laughing at my own parents who used up every bit of everything, including rinsing out tomato-sauce cans and adding it to the soup, but later I found that because they did not have to go out and replace everything as quickly, they were able to save money.

    The Bright Side of Frugality 2008

  • I grew up eating a tomato-sauce based lentil salad that my dad read about in a newspaper long ago and has been making ever since.

    Tuna Toast Tokyoastrogirl 2006

  • I grew up eating a tomato-sauce based lentil salad that my dad read about in a newspaper long ago and has been making ever since.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Tokyoastrogirl 2006

  • The purchasers of hot chicken are many, and they take them away to open tables, where stand huge bottles of red wine and tubs of tomato-sauce.

    A Tramp's Sketches Stephen Graham 1929

  • Mary Lou briskly served potatoes and creamed carrots and summer squash; Susan went down a pyramid of saucers as she emptied a large bowl of rather watery tomato-sauce.

    Saturday's Child Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • Nevertheless, it made Mrs. Cairnes quite nervous with apprehension concerning Mrs. Maybury's face on coming to the dinner-table; she left off having roasts, and had a slice of steak; chops and tomato-sauce; a young chicken.

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) Various 1887

  • Upon this, the loons, all down the lake, who had hitherto been silent, took up the strain with vehemence, hurling their wild laughter at the presumptuous mortal who thus dared to invade their solitudes with details as trivial as Mr. Pickwick's tomato-sauce.

    Oldport Days 1873

  • Since Mr. Pickwick, with his heartless tomato-sauce and warming-pans, there had been nothing so aggravating as to try to solace us, who were as good as on board ship and under way, -- nay, in imagination as far up the St. John's as Pilatka at least, -- with brigade drills!

    Army Life in a Black Regiment Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867

  • Upon this, the loons, all down the lake, who had hitherto been silent, took up the strain with vehemence, hurling their wild laughter at the presumptuous mortal who thus dared to invade their solitudes with details as trivial as Mr. Pickwick's tomato-sauce.

    Oldport Days Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867

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