sauce vinaigrette
- noun
- /sɔs vɪnəˈɡrɛt/
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salsa vinagreta
- The chef prepared a fresh salad drizzled with sauce vinaigrette made from olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
Examples
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I have learned so many things, Father, not just how to make vichyssoise or calf's head with sauce vinaigrette, but a much more important recipe.
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Oh, I'll have the asperges sauce vinaigrette and then a Châteaubriand.
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Pigs' feet and calves' heads waiting for sauce vinaigrette.
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For a light meal, she enjoyed a mixed green salad topped with sauce vinaigrette and freshly ground pepper.
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A simple recipe for vegetables includes steam cooking them and dressing them with sauce vinaigrette for extra flavor.
Synonyms
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3.3
A salad dressing made from oil and vinegar, often with mustard or garlic
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1.0
A cold sauce like oil and vinegar or ranch that adds flavor to fresh vegetables
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1.0
A sauce like vinaigrette or a creamy one used on salads
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2.4
A thin sauce for salad made with oil, vinegar, garlic, and herbs like oregano
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1.9
A salad sauce of oil and vinegar often mixed with mustard and garlic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'sauce' (a condiment) combined with 'vinaigrette' (an oil-and-vinegar dressing) yields the obvious meaning of a vinaigrette-type sauce. This noun–noun combination follows standard culinary naming patterns and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The noun sauce vinaigrette comes from French words sauce and vinaigrette, where vinaigrette is a small form of vinaigre or 'vinegar'. It names the small 'vinegar' sauce made by mixing oil and vinegar, so the phrase points to the cold 'salad dressing' we use today.