Etymology

hollandaise sauce

Today it means: An emulsion of butter and lemon juice using egg yolks as the emulsifying agent, used in French cooking. Full definition →

French sauce hollandaise
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  1. French · borrowed fromsauce hollandaise
  2. English todayhollandaise sauce

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.