sauce espagnole

What does sauce espagnole mean?

sauce espagnole means "brown sauce with tomatoes and a caramelized mixture of minced carrots and onions and celery seasoned with Madeira". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for sauce espagnole?

Close synonyms include Espagnole, brown sauce. 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 sauce espagnole a common word?

sauce espagnole 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sauce espagnole come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.