cream sauce

noun

Any sauce made with butter, flour, and either cream or milk, especially béchamel sauce.

Meanings

nouncream sauce (countable and uncountable, plural cream sauces)

plural cream sauces

  1. countableuncountableAny sauce made with butter, flour, and either cream or milk, especially béchamel sauce.

Synonyms & antonyms

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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