Obs. rare. [ad. OF. (also mod. F.) sauce verte green sauce.] A sauce made principally with green herbs. Cf. GREEN SAUCE.
c. 1440. Anc. Cookery, in Househ. Ord. (1790), 441. Vert Sause. Take parsel, and myntes, and peletur [etc.].
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 509/1. Vertesawce, or vergesawce,… viride salsamentum.
c. 1450. Two Cookery Bks., 104. And sauce is vergesauce [Douce MS. vert sauce].
1483. Cath. Angl., 401/1. Vert sawse, viridis salsa.
