brown sauce
- noun
:
salsa marrón
- The chef drizzled the brown sauce over the steamed vegetables to enhance their flavor.
Examples
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Get me brown sauce.
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It's above the brown sauce.
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- You have any brown sauce?
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It's above the brown sauce, Bedwin.
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You'll be wanting some brown sauce with those I assume.
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We learned how to make three sauces: a strawberry sauce (which was just a matter of putting fresh strawberries and a bit of water in a blender and adding a little bit of sugar - what I don't remember is if we cooked the strawberries first), a white sauce, and a brown sauce.
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At the dinner, we enjoyed fried rice with brown sauce poured over it.
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For his stir-fry, he mixed chicken and bell peppers with a rich brown sauce made from soy sauce.
Synonyms
A dark, salty sauce made with soy sauce and broth and used on Chinese dishes
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward adjective + noun combination: 'brown' describes the colour/appearance and 'sauce' names the condiment, so a learner who knows both words will infer it denotes a sauce that is brown and likely made or coloured accordingly. This compositional pattern is common across languages and follows standard English modification rules, making the meaning immediately accessible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Brown sauce gets its name from its deep brown colour — it is often made with soy sauce and cooked sugars that give a glossy brown coating to stir-fried vegetables and meat. So today it means the dark, savory sauce used in many Chinese-style dishes.
