a sweet sauce made from fresh raspberries and served with peach melba, fruit sundaes, etc
Word origin
C20: named after Dame Nellie Melba
Melba sauce in American English
noun
a clear raspberry sauce, used esp. as a dessert topping
Word origin
[1950–55; named after N. melba]This word is first recorded in the period 1950–55. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: International Gothic, action painting, conflict of interest, hot line, point-of-sale