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mornay

mornay adjective: served with a white sauce containing cheese.

Adjective

mornay (not comparable)

  1. (capitalized, postpositional, sometimes) Served with a white sauce containing cheese.
    • eggs mornay

mornay meaning in Tamil

mornay in Tamil

பாலடைக்கட்டி மணக்குழம்பு, பாலடைக்கட்டிக் குழம்பு

Origin of mornay

Debated. Named after the French commune Mornay, or perhaps after Philippe, duc de Mornay (1549–1623), Governor of Saumur and seigneur du Plessis-Marly, writer and diplomat; but Béchamel sauces had not yet been developed in his lifetime.

Questions about mornay

What does mornay mean?
Mornay means served with a white sauce containing cheese.
What is mornay in Tamil?
Mornay in Tamil is பாலடைக்கட்டி மணக்குழம்பு, பாலடைக்கட்டிக் குழம்பு. See Mornay meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is mornay?
Mornay is an adjective.

Words near mornay in the dictionary

  1. mormyromasts
  2. morn
  3. morn's morning
  4. morna
  5. mornas
  6. mornay
  7. morne
  8. Morneau
  9. Morneault
  10. Morneaults
  11. Morneaus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mornay (page history and authors); mornay (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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