Bercy

noun French Cookery.

a white sauce flavored with white wine, shallots, fish stock, and parsley: usually served with fish.

Also called Bercy sauce.

Origin:
after Bercy, a district of Paris

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bercy
noun
butter creamed with white wine and shallots and parsley

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