The Collaborative International Dictionary
Caper \Ca"per\, n. [F. c[^a]pre, fr. L. capparis, Gr. ?; cf. Ar. & Per. al-kabar.]
The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper ( Capparis spinosa), much used for pickles.
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(Bot.) A plant of the genus Capparis; -- called also caper bush, caper tree.
Note: The Capparis spinosa is a low prickly shrub of the Mediterranean coasts, with trailing branches and brilliant flowers; -- cultivated in the south of Europe for its buds. The Capparis sodada is an almost leafless spiny shrub of central Africa (Soudan), Arabia, and southern India, with edible berries.
Bean caper. See Bran caper, in the Vocabulary.
Caper sauce, a kind of sauce or catchup made of capers.
WordNet
n. allemande sauce with capers
Usage examples of "caper sauce".
And what else would one eat at a lakeside inn but the delicious fogas in that secret caper sauce of yours?
Kate did not dare to choose less or even to eata little more quickly than usual, though the food choked herand she felt as if the procession of venison pies, stewed pigeons,hot mutton with caper sauce, grilled chicken, roasted plums,sallets, custards, and sweet cakes was never going to come to anend.
Lady Clifford's dinner did indeed include mutton: boiled mutton in the English manner, with caper sauce.
That the jewels are all mine now, while he is come to dine today on hearty-choke and caper sauce?
Dinner might be set out in the breakfast-parlour, and served by the pantry-boy, but Mr Templecombe's notion of a picnic included plovers' eggs, some fillets of salmon, with a caper sauce, a blanquette of fowl, and a raised pie.
Beside all the utterly ravishing girls in their T-shirts, leggings or occasional micro-skirt, she felt like boiled mutton dressed as lamb without even the aid of caper sauce.
The filet of baby dewback with caper sauce and fleik-liver pate was the best Trevagg had ever eaten, and when Nightlily hooned, with modestly downcast eyes, that virgins of her people were only permitted fruits and vegetables, Porcellus outdid himself in the production of four courses of lipana berries and honey, puptons of dried magicots and psibara, a baked felbar with savory cream, and staggeringly good bread pudding for dessert.
I am sure her Highness would prefer, say, fricassee of pigeon breast in truffle and caper sauce.