"white sauce" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: white sauces [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} white sauce (countable and uncountable, plural white sauces)
  1. A simple sauce made from flour, milk and butter; Béchamel sauce. Tags: countable, uncountable Coordinate_terms: brown sauce Translations (simple sauce made from flour, butter and milk — see also béchamel sauce): valkokastike (Finnish), sauce blanche [feminine] (French), anlann bán [masculine] (Irish)
    Sense id: en-white_sauce-en-noun-R5E42M9M Disambiguation of 'simple sauce made from flour, butter and milk — see also béchamel sauce': 85 15
  2. Mayonnaise. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Sauces
    Sense id: en-white_sauce-en-noun-laHCa1XF Disambiguation of Sauces: 20 80 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Irish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 40 60 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 14 86 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 17 83 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 8 92 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 12 88 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 12 88 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 16 84

Inflected forms

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