velouté
See also: veloute
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French velouté (“velvety, smooth”).
Noun
velouté (plural veloutés)
- (cooking) A mother sauce in French cuisine, consisting of a light stock thickened with a blond roux.
Anagrams
- evolute
French
Etymology
From velours. See also velu (“hairy”), inherited from Late Latin villūtus, ultimately from Latin villus (“hair, tuft of hair”). Cognate with English velvet.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /və.lu.te/
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Adjective
velouté (feminine veloutée, masculine plural veloutés, feminine plural veloutées)
- velvety
- smooth
Derived terms
- velouter
Noun
velouté m (plural veloutés)
- smoothness, softness
- (cooking) a velouté
Further reading
- “velouté”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /beluˈte/ [be.luˈt̪e]
- Rhymes: -e
Noun
velouté f (plural veloutés)
- velouté