Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hollandaise sauce

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 2.30 in modern English

Syllables: hol-landaise sauce
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

2

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An emulsion of butter and lemon juice using egg yolks as the emulsifying agent, used in French cooking.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Alternative letter-case form of hollandaise sauce.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Stir in three tablespoons Hollandaise sauce."
"A variation of Hollandaise sauce, Bearnaise is flavored with vinegar, shallots and herbs, rather than with lemon juice."
"The rest of the dish came together nicely with a poached egg sitting on top of some grilled pancetta (who'd of thought of cooking ready-to-eat ham?) on an English muffin, with the Hollandaise sauce over the top."

Etymology

From French sauce hollandaise (literally “Dutch sauce”).

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: sauce hollandaise

Usage

Inflected Forms

hollandaise sauces (plural)

Synonyms

hollandaise

Questions

What does hollandaise sauce mean?: An emulsion of butter and lemon juice using egg yolks as the emulsifying agent, used in French cooking.
Where does hollandaise sauce come from?: It is traced to French.

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