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white sauce

white sauce noun: a simple sauce made from flour, milk and butter; Béchamel sauce.

Noun

white sauce (countable and uncountable, plural white sauces)

  1. A simple sauce made from flour, milk and butter; Béchamel sauce.
  2. Mayonnaise.

Forms of white sauce

pluralwhite sauces

Questions about white sauce

What does white sauce mean?
White sauce means a simple sauce made from flour, milk and butter; Béchamel sauce.
What part of speech is white sauce?
White sauce is a noun.
What is the plural of white sauce?
The plural of white sauce is white sauces.

Words near white sauce in the dictionary

  1. white sapote
  2. white sapotes
  3. white sapphire
  4. white sapphires
  5. white satin
  6. white sauce
  7. white sauces
  8. white savior
  9. white saviorism
  10. white saviors
  11. white saviour

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