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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
white sauce
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Add white sauce mixing slightly and dot with 1 tablespoon butter.
▪ Add the red pepper and leek and steam for a further 5 minutes. 2 Meanwhile, make a white sauce.
▪ Added to a simple white sauce, they make a good accompaniment to plain meats such as boiled bacon.
▪ Lasagna; an avalanche of white sauce tearing down the glen.
▪ Make a white sauce with the milk and cornflour and add most of the grated cheese.
▪ Prepare a white sauce by melting the butter in a pan, then adding the flour.
▪ Remove the white sauce from the oven.
▪ Repeat the layers, finishing with the white sauce, and sprinkle with the cheeses.
Wiktionary
white sauce

n. 1 A simple sauce made from flour, milk and butter; Béchamel sauce. 2 mayonnaise.

WordNet
white sauce

n. milk thickened with a butter and flour roux [syn: bechamel sauce, bechamel]

Usage examples of "white sauce".

Faltar took a bite of pearapple and chewed it, then looked at the yellowed white sauce on his platter.

Giving him an apologetic smile, I sent my fork under another bite of pasta and white sauce.

She forced a smile and took a healthy serving of the meat and the white sauce, then passed the platter to Reylan.

Justen looked from his plate to the chipped stoneware before Altara, from the heaping stack of browned meat covered with a white sauce to the two slices before the senior engineer.

The white sauce for the cauliflower went lumpy because Tory was trying, at the same time, to read a piece in one of the colour supplements on deb’.

One bore meat smothered in a white sauce, and another meat smothered in a brown sauce.

In the interim, his plate has been removed and replaced with a second and larger one, also of yellow porcelain, on which rests a slice of browned meat covered with a white sauce.