Italian families with strong Italian tradition generally use the term "gravy" to refer to what the rest of us call sauce. I grew up in a heavily Italian area in New York and the term "gravy" wasn't unusual. I hadn't heard the term for many years until we lived next to an Italian family who maintained their traditions in Tucson..they called it gravy. Then, not until I retired, when a family here on our street who are Italian and maintain tradition call it "gravy". At the end of the day, who cares....to each his or her own. 
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