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demi-glace

demi-glace is the alternative spelling of demiglace.

Meaning of demiglace

Noun

demiglace (countable and uncountable, plural demiglaces)

  1. A rich brown sauce in French cuisine, typically made from veal stock and espagnole sauce, used by itself or as a base for other sauces.
    • Calling her husband “the man who would make her Julia Child,” Shapiro deftly distills the mentorship, intelligence, humor and devotion Paul brought to the big, happy, unfocused California girl that was Julia McWilliams and skillfully reduces the sauce of Julia’s cooking ethic into a rich demiglace...2007 August 26, Dorothy Kalins, “Dropping the Chicken”, in New York Times

Forms of demi-glace

pluraldemi-glaces

Questions about demi-glace

What is demi-glace the alternative spelling of?
Demi-glace is the alternative spelling of demiglace.

Words near demi-glace in the dictionary

  1. demi-caractère
  2. demi-culverin
  3. demi-culverine
  4. demi-culverines
  5. demi-culverins
  6. demi-glace
  7. demi-glaces
  8. demi-god
  9. demi-gods
  10. demi-hunter
  11. demi-hunters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: demi-glace (page history and authors); demiglace (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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