demiglace

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noun

A rich brown sauce in French cuisine, typically made from veal stock and espagnole sauce, used by itself or as a base for other sauces.

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demi-glazedemi-glace
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Meanings

noundemiglace (countable and uncountable, plural demiglaces)

plural demiglaces · alternative demi-glace · alternative demiglaze

  1. countableuncountableA rich brown sauce in French cuisine, typically made from veal stock and espagnole sauce, used by itself or as a base for other sauces.
    1 more example

    Calling her husband “the man who would make her Julia Child,” Shapiro deftly distills the mentorship, intelligence, humor and devotion Paul brought to the big, happy, unfocused California girl that was Julia McWilliams and skillfully reduces the sauce of Julia’s cooking ethic into a rich demiglace: “Use all your senses, all the time.

    2007 August 26, Dorothy Kalins, “Dropping the Chicken”, in New York Times

Synonyms & antonyms

nounsauce Espagnole with extra beef stock simmered down and seasoned with dry wine or sherry

Similar
demi-glazedemi-glace
Broader

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Frenchdemi-glace
  2. Frenchdemi-glace
  3. Englishdemiglace

Borrowed from French demi-glace.

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Cite this entry
APA

demiglace. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/demiglace

MLA

“demiglace.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/demiglace. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “demiglace,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/demiglace.

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