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hollandaise sauce

hollandaise sauce noun: an emulsion of butter and lemon juice using egg yolks as the emulsifying agent, used in French cooking.

hollandaise sauce: an emulsion of butter and lemon juice using egg yolks as the emulsifying agent, used in French...
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Noun (1)

hollandaise sauce (countable and uncountable, plural hollandaise sauces)

  1. An emulsion of butter and lemon juice using egg yolks as the emulsifying agent, used in French cooking.
    Synonyms:
    hollandaise

Noun (2) capitalized: Hollandaise sauce

Hollandaise sauce (countable and uncountable, plural Hollandaise sauces)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of hollandaise sauce.
    • Stir in three tablespoons Hollandaise sauce.1949 November 27, Ruth P. Casa-Emellos, “Making the Most of Oysters”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2025
    • A variation of Hollandaise sauce, Bearnaise is flavored with vinegar, shallots and herbs, rather than with lemon juice.1997 March 12, Joan Drake, “Bearnaise Revisited”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Aug 2026

hollandaise sauce meaning in Malay and Persian

hollandaise sauce in Malay

emulsion of butter
sos belanda

hollandaise sauce in Persian

emulsion of butter
سس هولاندز sos-e holândeiz

Synonyms of hollandaise sauce

Forms of hollandaise sauce

pluralhollandaise sauces
alternative formHollandaise sauce
pluralHollandaise sauces

Origin of hollandaise sauce

From French sauce hollandaise (literally “Dutch sauce”).

Questions about hollandaise sauce

What does hollandaise sauce mean?
Hollandaise sauce means an emulsion of butter and lemon juice using egg yolks as the emulsifying agent, used in French cooking.
What is hollandaise sauce in Malay?
Hollandaise sauce in Malay is sos belanda. See Hollandaise sauce meaning in Malay.
What part of speech is hollandaise sauce?
Hollandaise sauce is a noun.
What is the plural of hollandaise sauce?
The plural of hollandaise sauce is hollandaise sauces.

Words near hollandaise sauce in the dictionary

  1. Holland Arms
  2. Holland Park
  3. Holland Patent
  4. Holland-on-Sea
  5. hollandaise
  6. hollandaise sauce
  7. hollandaise sauces
  8. hollandaises
  9. hollander
  10. Hollander beater
  11. Hollander beaters

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