Bercy

[ bair-see; French ber-see ]

noun

, French Cooking.

1. a white sauce flavored with white wine, shallots, fish stock, and parsley: usually served with fish.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Bercy¹

After Bercy, a district of Paris

Example Sentences

Foulques of Bercy, on his part, surprised at seeing the trouvere suddenly armed, remains for a moment in perplexity.

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Their site was given up in the latter half of the nineteenth century for the Entrepts de Bercy.

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Quai de Bercy, records by its name the bergerie, in old French bercil, here in long-gone days.

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Bercy began to suspect the cause of this, and one day he happened upon a discovery.

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In 1248 Hugo de Bercy notes a change in the construction of compasses, which are now supported on two floats in a glass cup.

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