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† ˈmeresauce Obs.
Also 5 mersaus(e, mire sauce.
[? repr. AF. *muiresauce:—L. muria salsa salt pickle. Cf. the synonymous OF. salmuire, mod.F. saumure.]
Brine used for pickling.
c1400in Househ. Ord. (1790) 435 Take felittes of braune and let hom lye in mersaus an houre. 1483Cath. Angl. 240/2 Mire sauce, muria. 1494Fabyan Chron. vi. ccxiv. 230 He..slewe the sayde seruauntes of his brother, and hacked theym in small pecys, and cast them after in mere⁓sawce or salte. 1530Palsgr. 244/2 Mere sauce for flesshe, savlmvre. 1681W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. (1693) 877 Meer sauce, or brine. |