gravy

ˈɡɹeɪvi

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#1·17h ago

(countable, uncountable) A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked.

Origin: From , greavie, gravy; probably from greaves, the sediment of melted tallow, or from , a claimed misspelling of stew, spice, from spice. Sense of "pasta sauce" apparently seems to be from Italian dialect, especially Calabrian, differentiating tomato puree (sauce) from cooked tomato sauce (sugo). Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·17h ago

(uncountable, chiefly, _, Italian-American) Sauce used for pasta.

1906, Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, "Pa Senik and his Son-in-Law Awang", Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, page 59-60:

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#3·17h ago

(uncountable, India, Singapore) Curry sauce.

: Now it seems that Pa Senik was a little deaf. Awang noticed that his father-in-law sometimes poured the gravy of his curry on his rice and that sometimes he sucked it up.

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