sauce espagnole

[ saws es-puhn-yohl, -pan-; French soh ses-pa-nyawl ]

noun

1. brown sauce.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sauce espagnole¹

< French: Spanish sauce

Example Sentences

Brown the birds well, and serve with sauce espagnole or sauce piquante.

From Project Gutenberg

Take some sauce espagnole, add a few mushrooms and a dust of cayenne.

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