"hard sauce" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: hard sauces [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} hard sauce (countable and uncountable, plural hard sauces)
  1. A rich sweet dessert sauce for puddings, made by creaming or beating butter and sugar with rum, brandy, whiskey, sherry, vanilla, or other flavourings. Wikipedia link: hard sauce Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Sauces

Inflected forms

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