velouté

See also: veloute

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French velouté (“velvety, smooth”).

Noun

velouté (plural veloutés)

1. (cooking) A mother sauce in French cuisine, consisting of a light stock thickened with a blond roux.

Anagrams

• evolute

French

Etymology

From velours. See also velu (“hairy”), inherited from Late Latin villūtus, ultimately from Latin villus (“hair, tuft of hair”). Cognate with English velvet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /və.lu.te/

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Adjective

velouté (feminine veloutée, masculine plural veloutés, feminine plural veloutées)

1. velvety
2. smooth

Derived terms

• velouter

Noun

velouté m (plural veloutés)

1. smoothness, softness
2. (cooking) a velouté

Further reading

• “velouté”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beluˈte/ [be.luˈt̪e]
• Rhymes: -e

Noun

velouté f (plural veloutés)

1. velouté