Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A sauce, made of an acidic liquid such as vinegar or lemon juice; oil; and other ingredients, used as a salad dressing, or as a marinade for cold meats.

    Vinaigrette

    со́ус винегре́тsóus vinegrét

    со́ус вінегре́тsóus vinehrét, вінегре́тна запра́вкаvinehrétna zaprávka

  2. (countable, historical, uncountable)A small, two-wheeled vehicle, like a litter, to be drawn or pushed by a person. They were used in France until the late 18th century.

  3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A small perforated box for holding aromatic vinegar contained in a sponge, or a smelling bottle for smelling salts

    Riechfläschchen

More definitions
  • oil and vinegar with mustard and garlic

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Benedito tossed the salad with a light vinaigrette.

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  2. Endives, walnuts and roquefort are the ingredients of a good salad that can be enjoyed with a walnut or sunflower oil vinaigrette.

    deEndivien, Walnüsse und Roquefort sind die Zutaten für einen guten Salat, den man mit Walnuss- oder Sonnenblumenölmarinade genießen kann.

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  3. "What is this?" "It's vinaigrette."

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Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
sauce:
Русский
By meaning 1
sauce:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
sauce:
small box for holding vinegar or smelling salts:

Origin

Borrowed from French vinaigrette. Sense 4 (“type of Russian salad”) is a semantic loan fro

Borrowed from French vinaigrette. Sense 4 (“type of Russian salad”) is a semantic loan from Russian винегре́т (vinegrét), whence also the doublet vinegret.

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Forms

plural: vinaigrettes

Synonyms

8 synonyms
sauce:French dressingItalian dressingGreek dressingvinaigrette dressingvinaigrette saucevinaigrette salad sauce
vinegarette
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words

See also

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