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Bordelaise sauce

Bordelaise sauce noun: a French sauce made with dry red wine, bone marrow, butter, shallots, and demiglace, and traditionally served with beef.

Noun

Bordelaise sauce (usually uncountable, plural Bordelaise sauces)

  1. (usually) A French sauce made with dry red wine, bone marrow, butter, shallots, and demiglace, and traditionally served with beef.
    Synonyms:
    bordelaise

Synonyms of Bordelaise sauce

Forms of Bordelaise sauce

pluralBordelaise sauces

Origin of Bordelaise sauce

Partial calque of French sauce bordelaise (literally “sauce of Bordeaux”).

Questions about Bordelaise sauce

What does Bordelaise sauce mean?
Bordelaise sauce means a French sauce made with dry red wine, bone marrow, butter, shallots, and demiglace, and traditionally served with beef.
What part of speech is Bordelaise sauce?
Bordelaise sauce is a noun.
What is the plural of Bordelaise sauce?
The plural of Bordelaise sauce is Bordelaise sauces.

Words near Bordelaise sauce in the dictionary

  1. Bordei Verde
  2. bordeis
  3. bordel
  4. Bordelais
  5. bordelaise
  6. Bordelaise sauce
  7. Bordelaise sauces
  8. bordelaises
  9. Bordelese
  10. bordellers
  11. bordello

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