ˌmint-ˈsauce
[f. mint n.2 + sauce n.]
1. A sauce made of finely chopped mint mixed with vinegar and sweetened with sugar; it is usually eaten with roast lamb.
| 1747 H. Glasse Cookery 4 It will eat like Lamb with Mint Sauce. 1769 Earl Carlisle in Jesse G. Selwyn & Contemp. (1843) II. 363 Sir P. Lambe..said he would give Lady Henrietta mint sauce. 1826 Mrs. Dods Cook & Housw. Man. 169 Mint Sauce for Hot or Cold Roast Lamb. |
2. With punning allusion to mint n.2: Money.
| 1828 Egan Finish Tom & Jerry (1871) 53, I..only hope that he gets lots of mint-sauce. 1838 Dickens Nich. Nick. xxxiv, It is to melt some scraps of dirty paper into bright shining, chinking, tinkling, demd mint sauce. |