Small shallow dishes, usually placed under cups to catch drips, or any shallow dish-like objects.
From Old French 'sauciere' (saucepan), derived from 'sauce,' ultimately from Latin 'salsa' (salted), around the 1400s.
Flying saucers got their name because UFOs were described as disc-shaped like shallow saucers—a simple metaphor that stuck and became the iconic image of alien spacecraft.
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