white sauce


noun
  1. a sauce made of butter, flour, seasonings, and milk or sometimes chicken or veal stock; béchamel.

Origin of white sauce

1
First recorded in 1715–25

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white sauce

noun
  1. a thick sauce made from flour, butter, seasonings, and milk or stock

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