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Meaning of brown sauce | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Català salsa fosca
Cymraeg sos brown
Suomi ruskeakastike
Français sauce brune
Gaeilge anlann donn
Svenska brunsås

Examples

“HP Sauce is a popular variety of brown sauce.”
“He put brown sauce on the mashed potatoes.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

brown seaweed brown shark brown shirt brown shoe brown shower brown shrike

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