† ˈsaucery Obs.
Forms: 5 salserie, 5–6 sawcery(e, 6 salcerie, salcery, saulcery, 7 sausery, 8 salsary, 6–8 saucery(e.
[a. OF. sausserie, med.L. salsāria, f. OF. sausse, med.L. salsa sauce n.: see -ery.]
1. The department of a household entrusted with the preparation of sauces.
| c 1440 in Househ. Ord. (1790) 38 There is none that dyneth in their offyces, savinge onely the cookes, the scullery, the sawcerye [etc.]. 1502 in Priv. Purse Exp. Eliz. York (1830) 2 To the Saulcery x s. 1520 in Rutland Papers (Camden) 40 Item, the skullary and sawcery. 1541 Act 33 Hen. VIII, c. 12 §3 The Grome of the Salcerie..of the same housholde..shalbe..redye withe vyneger and colde water. 1708 J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. i. ii. xiv. (1710) 121 Vinegar and cold Water, brought by the Groom of the Saucery. |
2. That part of a house in which sauces were prepared; the apartments of the servants engaged in the preparation of sauces.
| 1468 in Priv. Purse Exp. Eliz. York (1830) 223/2 In the squillery and salserie a yeoman a groom and a page. 1649 Descr. Richmond Crt. in Nichols Progr. Eliz. (1823) II. 412 One other little room called the Saucery. 1650 Surv. Nonsuch in Archæologia V. 435 One little timber building,..commonly called the Saucery House, conteyning foure little roomes used by the yeomen of the sauces. |
3. attrib. salsary-man. (See quot.)
| 1708 J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. ii. iii. 537 Salsary-man. [An officer of the Queen's Pastry.] |