sauce vinaigrette
Definition
Noun: A cold sauce or dressing for salads, consisting of oil and vinegar, typically seasoned with mustard, garlic, salt, and pepper.
Usage
"Sauce vinaigrette" is used as a mass noun to refer to the dressing itself. It is typically served with salads or used as a marinade. * The chef prepared a simple sauce vinaigrette for the green salad. * For a lighter option, I prefer my vegetables with sauce vinaigrette instead of a creamy dressing.
Advanced Usage
- "A vinaigrette": While "sauce vinaigrette" is the full term, it is very common to shorten it to simply "a vinaigrette" when referring to a specific type or batch.
- She created a delicious lemon-herb vinaigrette.
Variants and Related Words
- Vinaigrette (n): The common shortened form of "sauce vinaigrette."
- French dressing (n): In some contexts, this can be a synonym, though "French dressing" sometimes implies a slightly different, often sweeter, formulation.
Synonyms
- Salad dressing
- French dressing (context-dependent)
Related Phrases
- Oil and vinegar: This is a basic description of its primary components and is sometimes used informally to refer to a simple vinaigrette.
- I'll just have my salad with oil and vinegar, please.
Noun
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oil and vinegar with mustard and garlic
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