white sauce

white sauce
noun Date: 1723 a sauce consisting essentially of a roux with milk, cream, or stock and seasoning

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  • white sauce — white sauces N MASS White sauce is a thick white sauce made from milk, flour, and butter. Meat, fish, or vegetables are often cooked in or served in white sauce …   English dictionary

  • white sauce — noun uncount a sauce made from flour, milk, and butter …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • white sauce — white′ sauce n. coo a sauce of butter, flour, and milk • Etymology: 1715–25 …   From formal English to slang

  • white sauce — ► NOUN ▪ a sauce consisting of flour blended and cooked with butter and milk or stock …   English terms dictionary

  • white sauce — n. a cooked sauce for vegetables, meat, fish, etc. made of fat or butter, flour, milk, cream, or stock, and seasoning …   English World dictionary

  • white sauce — [ US ˈ. .] n [U and C] a thick white liquid made of flour, milk, and butter, which can be eaten with meat and vegetables …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • white sauce — noun milk thickened with a butter and flour roux • Syn: ↑bechamel sauce, ↑bechamel • Hypernyms: ↑sauce • Hyponyms: ↑blanc, ↑cheese sauce, ↑cream sauce * * * …   Useful english dictionary

  • white sauce — a sauce made of butter, flour, seasonings, and milk or sometimes chicken or veal stock; béchamel. [1715 25] * * * …   Universalium

  • white sauce — noun a) A simple sauce made from flour, milk and butter b) mayonnaise …   Wiktionary

  • white sauce — noun a sauce consisting of flour blended and cooked with butter and milk or stock …   English new terms dictionary

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