meunière sauce

noun

A simple sauce made with brown butter, chopped parsley, and lemon.

OriginFrench meunière →
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Meanings

nounmeunière sauce (countable and uncountable, plural meunière sauces)

plural meunière sauces

  1. countableuncountablecookingA simple sauce made with brown butter, chopped parsley, and lemon.

Origin

  1. Frenchmeunière
  2. Englishmeunière sauce

From French meunière (literally “miller's wife”).

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APA

meunière sauce. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/meuni%C3%A8re%20sauce

MLA

“meunière sauce.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/meuni%C3%A8re%20sauce. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “meunière sauce,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/meuni%C3%A8re%20sauce.

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