"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 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 48 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: 25 75 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 48 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 33 67 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 32 68

Inflected forms

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