brown sauce
English
Noun
brown sauce (countable and uncountable, plural brown sauces)
- A sauce made by the addition of stock to a heated and browned mixture of butter and flour.
- (British, Ireland) Any of many brands of bottled sauce based on malt vinegar, fruit and spices.
- HP Sauce is a popular variety of brown sauce.
- Gravy.
- He put brown sauce on the mashed potatoes.
Hyponyms
- (sauce made with stock): Madeira sauce
Coordinate terms
Translations
stock, butter and flour
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bottled sauce made of vinegar, fruit and spices
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gravy — see gravy