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demiglace

demiglace noun: 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.

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 demiglace

pluraldemiglaces
alternative formdemi-glace
alternative formdemiglaze

Origin of demiglace

Borrowed from French demi-glace.

Questions about demiglace

What does demiglace mean?
Demiglace means 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.
What part of speech is demiglace?
Demiglace is a noun.
What is the plural of demiglace?
The plural of demiglace is demiglaces.

Words near demiglace in the dictionary

  1. demigauntlets
  2. demigender
  3. demigenus
  4. demigirl
  5. demigirls
  6. demiglace
  7. demiglaces
  8. demiglaze
  9. demiglobe
  10. demiglobes
  11. demigod

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