Crossword clues for vinaigrette
vinaigrette
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vinaigrette \Vin`ai*grette"\, n. [F., fr. vinaigre vinegar.]
(Cookery) A sauce, made of vinegar, oil, and other ingredients, -- used esp. for cold meats.
A small perforated box for holding aromatic vinegar contained in a sponge, or a smelling bottle for smelling salts; -- called also vinegarette.
A small, two-wheeled vehicle, like a Bath chair, to be drawn or pushed by a boy or man. [R.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, a type of condiment, from French vinaigrette (14c.), diminutive of vinaigre "(aromatic) vinegar" (see vinegar). Use in reference to a type of dressing for salads or cold vegetables is attested from 1877. From 1811 as "small box or bottle for carrying aromatic vinegar."
Wiktionary
n. 1 A sauce, made of vinegar, oil, and other ingredients, used especially for cold meats, or as a salad dressing. 2 (context obsolete English) A small perforated box for holding aromatic vinegar contained in a sponge, or a smelling bottle for smelling salts; called also vinegarette. 3 (context obsolete English) A small, two-wheeled vehicle, like a Bath chair, to be drawn or pushed by a boy or man. 4 A sort of Russian salad, originally using French salad dressing.
WordNet
n. oil and vinegar with mustard and garlic [syn: French dressing, sauce vinaigrette]
Wikipedia
The word vinaigrette or vinegarette (from the diminutive of the French term vinaigre meaning vinegar) can refer to:
- Vinaigrette, a salad dressing or sauce
- Vinegret or Russian Vinaigrette, a salad in Russian cuisine
- A small container with a perforated top, used to contain an aromatic substance such as vinegar or smelling salts, especially popular for women in the Victorian era to combat the aroma from the waste products common in cities
Vinaigrette is made by mixing an oil with something acidic such as vinegar or lemon juice. The mixture can be enhanced with salt, herbs and/or spices. It is used most commonly as a salad dressing, but can also be used as a marinade. Traditionally, a vinaigrette consists of 3 parts oil and 1 part vinegar mixed into a stable emulsion, but the term is also applied to mixtures with different proportions and to unstable emulsions which last only a short time before separating into layered oil and vinegar phases.
Usage examples of "vinaigrette".
From its chains dangled various chatelettes made from rustproof materials: brass scissors, a golden etui with a manicure set inside, a bodkin, a spoon, a vinaigrette, a needle-case, a small looking-glass, a cup-sized strainer for spike-leaves, a timepiece that had stopped, and whose case was inlaid with ivory and bronze, a workbox containing small reels of thread, an enameled porcelain thimble and a silver one, silver-handled buttonhooks and a few spare buttonsglass-topped, enclosing tiny picturesa miniature portrait of her mother worked in enamels, several rowan-wood tilhals, a highly ornamented anlace, a penknife, an empty silver-gilt snuff-box, and a pencil.
The courtier checked over the ornate clasp holding together the medley of chatelettes: the scissors, the manicure set, bodkin, spoon, vinaigrette, needle-case, the looking-glass and spike-leaf strainer, the faulty timepiece, the workbox, the portrait and tilhals, the anlace, penknife, snuff-box, and pencil.
Irritably, Colette put the trout in the fridge, cleaned the fennel, made vinaigrette for the avocados, and decided to eat the apricots as they were, without bothering to make tart crust.
Rapidly, she ordered sole angelique for them both, artichoke hearts, mushrooms tarragon, and green salad with vinaigrette dressing.
I had trimmed and boiled the artichokes, and Berry had made the vinaigrette.
There was a compote of fresh melon and passion fruit sorbet, spinach salad with raspberry vinaigrette followed by breast of chicken in a vermouth and ginger cream sauce, and an exotic rice pilaf containing little bits of dried fruits and pistachio nuts.
Thinking that she might be really ill I played my part properly, and brought her to herself by sprinkling her with cold water and putting my vinaigrette to her nose.
Marie, as she plunged languidly into the depths of a voluminous and pillowy lounge, and drew towards her an elegant cut-glass vinaigrette.
Lois had also suggested that Joe festoon the house with eat flowers, set the table with cloth napldn rolled and fled with string as if they were diplomas, and serve deviled eggs and endive salad in a vinaigrette for lunch.
She had dined out so seldom that she found this difficult, and when her companion suggested artichoke hearts with vinaigrette dressing for a start, followed by tournedos Rossini with new peas and new potatoes, she agreed happily and with relief.
Once I had it the right way up, I ordered a lamb and leek sandwich with mesclun in balsamic vinaigrette.
Rose spared half a second to grin at Eddie, bartender and part-time waiter, while she wiped vinaigrette from the side of a plate of mesclun and goat cheese and slid it down the pickup.
He added curly noodles to boiling water, tossed a mesclun salad with a balsamic vinaigrette and spooned portions into wooden bowls.
Mulch opted for a bucket of diced worms and beetles, sauteed in a rainwater and moss vinaigrette.
TO NOBODY DIANE MOTT DAVIDSON COLD BUFFET FOR FORTY Poached salmon Mayonnaise mixed with wild Maine blueberries Asparagus vinaigrette with minced tomatoes Wild rice salad Herb rolls and honey muffins Strawberry shortcake buffet Vouvray, lemonade, coffee and tea -1- Catering a wake was not my idea of fun.