brown sauce

English

Noun

brown sauce (countable and uncountable, plural brown sauces)

1. A sauce made by the addition of stock to a heated and browned mixture of butter and flour.
2. (British, Ireland) Any of many brands of bottled sauce based on malt vinegar, fruit and spices.

   HP Sauce is a popular variety of brown sauce.

3. Gravy. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Hyponyms

• (sauce made with stock): Madeira sauce

Coordinate terms

• white sauce

Translations

stock, butter and flour

• Catalan: salsa fosca f
• Finnish: ruskeakastike
• French: sauce brune (fr)
• Irish: anlann donn m
• Welsh: saws brown m

bottled sauce made of vinegar, fruit and spices

• Welsh: sos brown m

gravy — see gravy