A sauce made with sweet and sour ingredients; a dish prepared with such a sauce.
Origin
Late Middle English; earliest use found in Diuersa Servicia. Apparently from an unattested Anglo-Norman or Middle French noun *aigre-douce, use as noun of feminine of aigre-doux sweet and sour.
Definition of egerdouce in US English:
egerdouce
(also egredouce)
noun
historical
A sauce made with sweet and sour ingredients; a dish prepared with such a sauce.
Origin
Late Middle English; earliest use found in Diuersa Servicia. Apparently from an unattested Anglo-Norman or Middle French noun *aigre-douce, use as noun of feminine of aigre-doux sweet and sour.