VINAIGRETTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vinaigrette mean? 

• VINAIGRETTE (noun)
  The noun VINAIGRETTE has 1 sense:

1. oil and vinegar with mustard and garlic

  Familiarity information: VINAIGRETTE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VINAIGRETTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Oil and vinegar with mustard and garlic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

French dressing; sauce vinaigrette; vinaigrette

Hypernyms ("vinaigrette" is a kind of...):

dressing; salad dressing (savory dressings for salads; basically of two kinds: either the thin French or vinaigrette type or the creamy mayonnaise type)

 Context examples 

The matrons, meantime, offered vinaigrettes and wielded fans; and again and again reiterated the expression of their concern that their warning had not been taken in time; and the elder gentlemen laughed, and the younger urged their services on the agitated fair ones.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)