béarnaise sauce

See also: bearnaise sauce

English

Alternative forms

• bearnaise sauce

Etymology

from French, the feminine of béarnais (the adjective from the Béarn region, using -ais (“-ese”)) + sauce

Noun

béarnaise sauce (usually uncountable, plural béarnaise sauces)

1. (cooking) A sauce made of clarified butter emulsified in egg yolks and white wine vinegar and flavored with herbs.

Synonyms

• béarnaise, bearnaise

Translations

sauce

• Danish: bearnaisesauce c, bearnaisesovs
• Dutch: béarnaisesaus, béarnaise
• Finnish: béarnaisekastike
• French: béarnaise (fr) f, sauce béarnaise (fr)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bearnés m

  Nynorsk: bearnés m

• Swedish: bearnaisesås (sv) c, bearnaise c, bea (sv) c (slang)