sauce Robert

English

Noun

sauce Robert (plural sauce Roberts)

  1. A soup based on chopped onions and mustard.
    • 1831, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality, volume 1, page 305:
      Adelaide was too quick-sighted not to perceive that Miss Arundel, when she first saw her talking to Lorraine, wore a very different air from Miss Arundel listening to Merton; and a rival was the sauce Robert, which would have made her not eat, but flirt with her grandfather.
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