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white sauce

noun

  1. a sauce made of butter, flour, seasonings, and milk or sometimes chicken or veal stock; béchamel.


white sauce

noun

  1. a thick sauce made from flour, butter, seasonings, and milk or stock
“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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Word History and Origins

Origin of white sauce1

First recorded in 1715–25
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Example Sentences

Mince two ounces of lean ham, one truffle, and six mushrooms; stir this mixture into a gill of white sauce.

If you add a tablespoonful of chopped parsley to a pint of white sauce, you make parsley sauce.

Egg sauce is made by adding chopped hard boiled eggs to white sauce.

It is easily made the basis of a great many sauces, the name of which depends on preferred addition to the white sauce.

You can use up boiled rice in the same way with white sauce and cheese, or you can merely mix your tomato and rice and bake that.

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