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brown sauce

brown sauce noun: a sauce made by the addition of stock to a heated and browned mixture of butter and flour.

Noun

brown sauce (countable and uncountable, plural brown sauces)

  1. A sauce made by the addition of stock to a heated and browned mixture of butter and flour.
  2. (Ireland, UK) Any of many brands of bottled sauce based on malt vinegar, fruit and spices.
    • HP Sauce is a popular variety of brown sauce.
  3. Gravy.
    • He put brown sauce on the mashed potatoes.

Forms of brown sauce

pluralbrown sauces

Questions about brown sauce

What does brown sauce mean?
Brown sauce means a sauce made by the addition of stock to a heated and browned mixture of butter and flour.
What part of speech is brown sauce?
Brown sauce is a noun.
What is the plural of brown sauce?
The plural of brown sauce is brown sauces.

Words near brown sauce in the dictionary

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