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Sense: 1
Date: 1300-1400
Language: Old French
Origin: sauge, from Latin salvia, from salvus; SAFE1
Sense: 2
Date: 1300-1400
Origin: SAGE2

sage

1 noun
     
sage
Related topics: Cooking
sage1
1 [uncountable]DFC a herb with grey-green leaves
2 [countable] literary someone, especially an old man, who is very wise
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