brown sauce

noun

A sauce made by the addition of stock to a heated and browned mixture of butter and flour.

“He put brown sauce on the mashed potatoes.”

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Chinese brown saucesauce Espagnole
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Meanings

nounbrown sauce (countable and uncountable, plural brown sauces)

plural brown sauces

  1. countableuncountableA sauce made by the addition of stock to a heated and browned mixture of butter and flour.
  2. IrelandUKcountableuncountableAny of many brands of bottled sauce based on malt vinegar, fruit and spices.

    HP Sauce is a popular variety of brown sauce.

  3. countableuncountableGravy.

    He put brown sauce on the mashed potatoes.

Synonyms & antonyms

Narrower
Madeira sauce

nouna sauce based on soy sauce

Similar
Chinese brown sauce
Broader
sauce

nounbouillon or beef stock thickened with butter and flour roux and variously seasoned with herbs or Worcestershire etc.

Similar
sauce Espagnole
Broader
sauce

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Catalan salsa fosca
  • salsa foscastock, butter and flour
Finnish ruskeakastike
  • ruskeakastikestock, butter and flour
French sauce brune
  • sauce brunestock, butter and flour
Irish anlann donn
  • anlann donnstock, butter and flour
Polish sos brązowy, sos brązowy
  • sos brązowystock, butter and flour
  • sos brązowybottled sauce made of vinegar, fruit and spices
Welsh saws brown, sos brown
  • saws brownstock, butter and flour
  • sos brownbottled sauce made of vinegar, fruit and spices
Cite this entry
APA

brown sauce. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brown%20sauce

MLA

“brown sauce.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brown%20sauce. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “brown sauce,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brown%20sauce.

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