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cream sauce

American  

noun

  1. a white sauce made of cream or milk, flour, and butter.


cream sauce British  

noun

  1. a white sauce made from cream, butter, etc

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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She said it was "a tough one because I have a lot of palettes to appease", with her British-born husband favouring "meat, potatoes and cream sauce" while she preferred grilled fish.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

Allman’s cameos on the show include unglamorous moments like renting out pressure washers or squeezing blood from a raw venison patty and cooking it in cream sauce for dinner.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 28, 2026

The crab cakes were our best bite, filled with loads of lump crab meat served with a horseradish cream sauce.

From Salon Jan. 13, 2026

It tastes like a steamed fish curry custard, with soft pieces of fish steeped in a mild coconut cream sauce.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 25, 2023

“I got a whole teaspoonful of Hinpoha’s old talcum powder in the cream sauce before I discovered it wasn’t flour, and then it was too late to take it out again.”

From The Camp Fire Girls' Larks and Pranks or, The House of the Open Door by Frey, Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude)

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