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soubises

soubises is the plural of soubise.

Meaning of soubise

Noun

soubise (countable and uncountable, plural soubises)

  1. A béchamel-based sauce containing strained or puréed onions.
    • Among the starters are crab meat resala, delicate, sweet petals of crab with a turmeric-onion soubise; and tender fried quail dressed with a bacon vinaigrette.2008 June 15, “The Other Hot Spot”, in New York Times
  2. (countable, historical) A kind of cravat worn by men in the late 18th century.

Questions about soubises

What is soubises the plural of?
Soubises is the plural of soubise.

Words near soubises in the dictionary

  1. Soubam
  2. soubedar
  3. soubedars
  4. Soubeyran
  5. soubise
  6. soubises
  7. soubresaut
  8. soubresauts
  9. soubrette
  10. soubrettes
  11. soubrettish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: soubises (page history and authors); soubise (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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