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Maltese sauce

Maltese sauce noun: hollandaise sauce with blanched orange zest and the juice of blood orange.

Noun

Maltese sauce (uncountable)

  1. Hollandaise sauce with blanched orange zest and the juice of blood orange.

Origin of Maltese sauce

From French sauce maltaise.

Questions about Maltese sauce

What does Maltese sauce mean?
Maltese sauce means hollandaise sauce with blanched orange zest and the juice of blood orange.
What part of speech is Maltese sauce?
Maltese sauce is a noun.

Words near Maltese sauce in the dictionary

  1. Maltese centaury
  2. Maltese cross
  3. Maltese crosses
  4. Maltese English
  5. Maltese Islands
  6. Maltese sauce
  7. Maltese starthistle
  8. Malteseness
  9. Malteses
  10. Maltesian
  11. Maltesian cross

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