brown sauce

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Noun

brown sauce (countable and uncountable, plural brown sauces)

  1. A sauce made by the addition of stock to a heated and browned mixture of butter and flour.
  2. (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.
  3. Gravy.
    He put brown sauce on the mashed potatoes.

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