"béchamel sauce" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: béchamel sauces [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from French sauce béchamel; named for Louis de Béchamel. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|sauce béchamel}} French sauce béchamel Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} béchamel sauce (countable and uncountable, plural béchamel sauces)
  1. A simple white sauce made from a roux of butter and flour to which is added hot milk. Wikipedia link: Louis de Bechamel Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Sauces Synonyms: white sauce, Béchamel sauce Translations (white sauce made with butter, flour and milk): beixamel [feminine] (Catalan), 貝夏梅爾調味醬 (Chinese Mandarin), 贝夏梅尔调味酱 (bèixiàméi'ěr tiáowèijiàng) (Chinese Mandarin), 白汁 (báizhī) (Chinese Mandarin), 白醬 (Chinese Mandarin), 白酱 (báijiàng) (Chinese Mandarin), 貝夏媚醬 (Chinese Mandarin), 贝夏媚酱 (bèixiàmèijiàng) (Chinese Mandarin), bešamel [masculine] (Czech), bechamelsaus (Dutch), beŝamelo (Esperanto), valkokastike (Finnish), béchamelkastike (Finnish), sauce béchamel [feminine] (French), bechamel (Galician), Béchamelsauce [feminine] (German), Milchsoße [feminine] (German), σάλτσα μπεσαμέλ (sáltsa besamél) [feminine] (Greek), besamelmártás (Hungarian), brachán bán [masculine] (Irish), brachán plúir [masculine] (Irish), besciamella [feminine] (Italian), бешамель (beşamel) (Kazakh), beszamel [masculine] (Polish), biały sos [masculine] (Polish), molho béchamel [masculine] (Portuguese), béchamel [masculine] (Portuguese), бешаме́ль (bešamélʹ) [masculine] (Russian), бешамел [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), бешамел сос [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), bešamel [Latin, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), bešamel sos [Latin, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), bechamel [feminine] (Spanish), besamel [feminine] (Spanish), béchamelsås [common-gender] (Swedish), beşamel (Turkish), beşamel sos (Turkish), grefi gwyn [masculine] (Welsh), grefi llaeth [masculine] (Welsh)

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      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "white sauce made with butter, flour and milk",
      "word": "beşamel"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "white sauce made with butter, flour and milk",
      "word": "beşamel sos"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "white sauce made with butter, flour and milk",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "grefi gwyn"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "white sauce made with butter, flour and milk",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "grefi llaeth"
    }
  ],
  "word": "béchamel sauce"
}

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