concept
Sauce provençale (euphemism)
sauce provençale
also: соус провансаль
A French culinary phrase the flustered deacon reaches for mid-sentence as a genteel, evasive substitute for a coarser remark about young wives' infidelity -- a comic tic of borrowed French filling in for plain speech.
Reading notes
- At the Post Office §8 sauce provençale
A French culinary term the flustered deacon reaches for mid-sentence as a genteel, evasive substitute for a coarser word about young wives' infidelity -- a comic tic of borrowed French phrases standing in for plain speech.