brown butter

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   clarified butter browned slowly and seasoned with vinegar or lemon juice and capers

   Synonymsbeurre noisette

   Broaderbutter

Questions about brown butter

What does brown butter mean?

brown butter means "clarified butter browned slowly and seasoned with vinegar or lemon juice and capers".

What is another word for brown butter?

Close synonyms include beurre noisette. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brown butter a common word?

brown butter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.