vinaigrette

See also: Vinaigrette

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for vinaigrette in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

A bottle of oil and balsamic vinegar for making vinaigrette in an Italian restaurant in Singapore

Alternative forms

• vinegarette (box for vinegar or smelling salts)

Etymology

Borrowing from French vinaigrette

Pronunciation

• enPR: vĭn-ə-grĕtʹ, IPA^(key): /vɪnəˈɡɹɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

vinaigrette (countable and uncountable, plural vinaigrettes)

1. A sauce, made of vinegar, oil, and other ingredients, used especially for cold meats, or as a salad dressing.
2. (obsolete) A small perforated box for holding aromatic vinegar contained in a sponge, or a smelling bottle for smelling salts; called also vinegarette.
   • 1858, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, What will he do with it?

     Lady Selina smells at her vinaigrette, and replies in her softest, affectedest, civilest, and crushingest manner— "Poor—DEAR—OLD MAN!"

3. (obsolete) A small, two-wheeled vehicle, like a Bath chair, to be drawn or pushed by a boy or man.
4. A sort of Russian salad, originally using French salad dressing.

Synonyms

• (sauce): French dressing, Italian dressing, Greek dressing, vinaigrette dressing, vinaigrette sauce, vinaigrette salad sauce

Derived terms

• vinaigrette dressing
• vinaigrette sauce

Translations

sauce

• Breton: gwinegrenn (br) f
• French: vinaigrette (fr) f
• Galician: vinagreta f
• German: Vinaigrette f

• Greek: λαδόξιδο (el) n (ladóxido)
• Persian: وینگرت‏‎ (vinegret)
• Swedish: vinägrett (sv) c
• Tagalog: binagreta

small box for holding vinegar or smelling salts

• German: Riechfläschchen n

• Volapük: smelafladil, benosmelafladül

vehicle

• French: vinaigrette (fr) f

a Russian salad

• Belarusian: вінэгрэт m (vinehrét)
• German: Vinaigrette f

• Russian: винегре́т (ru) m (vinegrét)
• Ukrainian: вінігрет m (vinihrét)

Anagrams

• integrative, vertiginate

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowing from French vinaigrette.

Noun

vinaigrette c (singular definite vinaigretten, not used in plural form)

1. vinaigrette (sauce)

Declension

Declension of vinaigrette

common gender	Singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	vinaigrette	vinaigretten
genitive	vinaigrettes	vinaigrettens

References

• “vinaigrette” in Den Danske Ordbog

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

vinaigrette f (plural vinaigrettes)

1. vinaigrette (sauce), French dressing
2. vinaigrette (vehicle)

Descendants

• Russian: винегре́т m (vinegrét) (a type of Russian salad originally using the French dressing)

Further reading

• “vinaigrette” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).