BROWN SAUCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brown sauce mean? 

• BROWN SAUCE (noun)
  The noun BROWN SAUCE has 2 senses:

1. a sauce based on soy sauce

2. bouillon or beef stock thickened with butter and flour roux and variously seasoned with herbs or Worcestershire etc.

  Familiarity information: BROWN SAUCE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROWN SAUCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sauce based on soy sauce

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

brown sauce; Chinese brown sauce

Hypernyms ("brown sauce" is a kind of...):

sauce (flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food)

Domain category:

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Domain region:

Cathay; China; Communist China; mainland China; People's Republic of China; PRC; Red China (a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Bouillon or beef stock thickened with butter and flour roux and variously seasoned with herbs or Worcestershire etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

brown sauce; sauce Espagnole

Hypernyms ("brown sauce" is a kind of...):

sauce (flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food)