[From the name of the French general and courtier Charles de Rohan Soubise (1715–87).]
† 1. A kind of cravat. Obs.
1776. Anstey, Election Ball. (1808), 229. With a shoe like a sauce boat and steeple-clock’d hose And a silken soubise that bob’d up to his nose.
2. A kind of onion-sauce.
Usually Soubise sauce, or in F. form Sauce Soubise.
1822. L. E. Ude, French Cook (ed. 7), 18. Purée of Onion, or Soubise.
1846. Soyer, Syst. Cookery, 22. Sauce Soubise. Peel six large onions [etc.].
1861. Eliza Acton, Mod. Cookery, 126. Soubise. (English Receipt.)…. Soubise. (French Receipt.)
1880. B’ham Weekly Post, 6 Nov., 1/7. Mutton cutlets, dressed with Soubise sauce, are quite a different thing from mutton cutlets plainly fried.
