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red sauce

n. tomato sauce

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Red sauce

The term red sauce has several meanings in English.

  • It is sometimes used to refer to marinara sauce in the United States
  • Along the Gulf Coast of the United States, it is used within the seafood culture as a nickname for cocktail sauce
  • In the United Kingdom and Ireland, it can be used to refer to tomato ketchup. Often, this refers to ketchup with a higher level of vinegar than normal.

Usage examples of "red sauce".

I relied on Dimitri for most of my recipes, though his experience at Mario's was almost entirely Southern Italian red sauce and the like.

A ladle that was twenty inches long stuck out of the rich red sauce.

Teresa used her knife to part a piece of fried pike, then picked up her half with her fingers and dipped it in red sauce.

When we were all stuffed with chicken in red sauce and meatballs and macaroni casseroles, Mrs.

And Dan McLean was standing by the stove, holding a beer and leaning in for Anna to feed him a spoonful of red sauce.

She was white and yellow and pink, covered with lumpy red sauce and syrup.

It consisted of a couple of hunks of tough bread softened up by an ocean of rusty red sauce and between which swam a trio of ball-like substances, which where, perhaps, some distant cousin to the meat family.