white sauce

noun

a sauce made of butter, flour, seasonings, and milk or sometimes chicken or veal stock; béchamel.

Origin of white sauce

First recorded in 1715–25

Words nearby white sauce

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British Dictionary definitions for white sauce

white sauce

noun

a thick sauce made from flour, butter, seasonings, and milk or stock