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roux
[roo] 
,–noun
| a cooked mixture of butter or other fat and flour used to thicken sauces, soups, etc. |
Origin:
1805–15; < F (beurre) roux brown (butter) < L russus red-brown, red-haired, akin to ruber red
1805–15; < F (beurre) roux brown (butter) < L russus red-brown, red-haired, akin to ruber red
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| roux (rōō) n. pl. roux A mixture of flour and fat cooked together and used as a thickening. [French (beurre) roux, browned (butter), from Old French rous, reddish brown, from Latin russus, red; see reudh- in Indo-European roots.] |
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Roux
Roux\, n. [F. beurre roux brown butter.] (Cookery) A thickening, made of flour, for soups and gravies.
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Language Translation for : roux
Spanish:
de zorro,
German:
Fuchs-…,
Japanese:
きつねのような
Roux (r&oomacr;), Pierre Paul Émile. 1853-1933.
French bacteriologist. His work with the diphtheria bacillus led to the development of antitoxins to neutralize pathogenic toxins.
Roux , Wilhelm. 1850-1924.
German anatomist who is noted for his research on embryonic development.
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Roux (r ) Pronunciation Key
French bacteriologist who assisted Louis Pasteur on most of his major discoveries. Later, working with Alexandre Yersin, he showed that the symptoms of diphtheria are caused by a lethal toxin produced by the diphtheria bacillus. Roux carried out early work on the rabies vaccine and directed the first tests of the diphtheria antitoxin. |
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