Definition of "sauve" [sauve]

• A Middle English form of save.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "And the teensy pool of eager, willing, and solvent patrons makes for what you might call a sauve qui peut world."
• "It turns out there are common ideals of distributive justice — or perhaps enlightened self-interest following a destructive war — that exist outside the sauve-qui-peut imagination of Liberal/libertarians."
• "PS - the sentence with sauve qui peut is difficult!"