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house-made

house-made

2 3.8
Made by the restaurant or shop itself instead of bought from outside
  • adjective
  • /ˈhaʊsˌmeɪd/
translation icon : hecho en casa
  • The restaurant is known for its delicious house-made bread, which pairs perfectly with every meal.
  • house-made pasta
  • house-made sausage
  • house-made ravioli

Examples

  • I picked a small container of house-made rillettes and, even though I knew it would be cumbersome and annoying, bought the smallest jar of mustard to go with it.

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  • And on top of that, house made Nacho sauce, which is like melted cheese and a Buffalo sauce.

  • So we make that in house and then it's starry soda and then we top it off with house made vanilla cream as well.

  • A greasy bottle of house-made hot sauce will keep the barbecue fundamentally honest.

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  • Each meal starts with house-made tortilla chips and three kinds of salsa.

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  • It has Four Roses bourbon, some fresh egg white like so some house made cherry syrup, fresh lemon.

  • Left Bank, located right next to the Dishwalk check-in station, offered house-made mushroom ravioli in a cream sauce.

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  • It is a hard-cooked egg wrapped in house-made sausage, breaded, and I believe it was then fried.

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  • House-made condiments, in conjunction with ketchup and mustard, are important parts of many signature burgers.

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  • We're gonna set you up with some nice plush robes, and then we have a wonderful full evening planned with massage, facial and nail treatments, and then we're going to send you home with a special gift of our house-made lavender scrub.

Antonyms

26 2.3

People buy it in a shop or store instead of making it at home

How Homemade

handmade
255 2.9
house-made
2 3.8
factory-made
1 3.1
store-bought
26 2.3

Surface Forms

house-made positive

Morphology

house-made = house + made (transparent) = house + made

Formed from the noun 'house' (in-house) + 'made' (produced), clearly meaning produced by the establishment itself.

Etymology

House-made comes from the simple parts house and made, and it is like homemade. It literally means 'made in the house', so on a menu it tells you the restaurant or shop made the food itself, not bought from outside.