▪ I. ‖ sauf, prep.
(sof)
[Fr.: cf. save quasi-prep. and conj.]
Used for: except for, apart from.
| c 1844 H. Taylor Let. in F. A. Hayek John Stuart Mill & Harriet Taylor (1951) 115 Your liability to take an over large measure of people—sauf having to draw in afterwards. 1847 J. S. Mill Let. 9 Mar. in Wks. (1963) XIII. 708, I have had a book to write..which I have now..completed, sauf the revising. 1864 G. Meredith Let. 1 June (1970) I. 259 Her Papa can't bear to lose her, though he always lets his daughters have their way in this matter, sauf the guarantee of moral character. |
▪ II. sauf
variant of saugh.
▪ III. sauf(e, -fand
see safe, salve, saving.