| 单词 | sauce patch |
| 释义 | > as lemmassauce patch b. Chiefly U.S. General use as a modifier in sense 2a, esp. with reference to places where vegetables are grown for food, as in sauce garden, sauce patch, etc.See also sauceman n. ΚΠ 1835 T. C. Haliburton in Novascotian 10 Dec. 363/2 They vegitate like a lettuce plant in sarse garden. ?1853 Trans. Norfolk Agric. Soc. for 1852 142 You have no gardens in this country; nothing but ‘sauce-yards’! 1875 Weekly Echo (Lake Charles, Louisiana) 11 Nov. Mere appendant gardens, lawns, lots and sauce-patches were not taken into account. 1923 Santa Ana (Calif.) Reg. 28 May (Editorial features section) 16/5 The Twins had helped the Ragsies put the sauce-patch garden into such fine order. 2017 K. E. Sheldon Afr. Women vii. 209 Women formerly had more access to certain low-lying plots for their ‘sauce’ gardens, but they had lost out to men who were growing crops for sale. < as lemmas |
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