vinaigrette
- Also vinegarette. a small, ornamental bottle or box for holding aromatic vinegar, smelling salts, or the like.
- vinaigrette sauce.
- (of a food, as asparagus or artichoke) served with a sauce made with vinegar or with vinaigrette sauce.
Origin of vinaigrette
Examples from the Web for vinaigrette
Contemporary Examples of vinaigrette
Before serving, bake the cheese packages, combine the salad and vinaigrette, and serve.
It is possibly the smile her vinaigrette saw when she tasted it.
Finish with a salad of frisee, chives, parsley, tarragon and chervil lightly dressed with the vinaigrette.
To make the vinaigrette, in a pot, reduce pomegranate juice by half and let cool.
The end result will be less like vinaigrette and more like a very vinegary, thin mayonnaise.
Historical Examples of vinaigrette
Then I was able to look at it, and recognize it as my mother's vinaigrette.
A Houseful of GirlsSarah Tytler
I was just stopping to give Mammy my vinaigrette, to take to church with her.
Uncle Tom's CabinHarriet Beecher Stowe
I—I will take the vinaigrette to my room with me, I think, my dear.
Margaret MontfortLaura E. Richards
I always thought you'd have hysterics on your wedding-day, and got my vinaigrette all ready.
MoodsLouisa May Alcott
Sibyl hastened away, and returned with her vinaigrette, which she handed to Rolfe.
The WhirlpoolGeorge Gissing
vinaigrette
- Also called: vinegarette a small decorative bottle or box with a perforated top, used for holding smelling salts, etc
- Also called: vinaigrette sauce a salad dressing made from oil and vinegar with seasonings; French dressing
- served with vinaigrette
Word Origin for vinaigrette
Word Origin and History for vinaigrette
1690s, a type of condiment, from French vinaigrette, diminutive of vinaigre "(aromatic) vinegar" (see vinegar). Modern sense of a type of dressing for salads or cold vegetables is attested from 1877.