vinaigrette
English edit
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vinaigrette”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Alternative forms edit
- vinegarette (box for vinegar or smelling salts)
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French vinaigrette.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
vinaigrette (countable and uncountable, plural vinaigrettes)
- 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.
- (obsolete) A small perforated box for holding aromatic vinegar contained in a sponge, or a smelling bottle for smelling salts; called also vinegarette.
- 1858, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, What will he do with it?:
- Lady Selina smells at her vinaigrette, and replies in her softest, affectedest, civilest, and crushingest manner— "Poor—DEAR—OLD MAN!"
- (obsolete) A small, two-wheeled vehicle, like a Bath chair, to be drawn or pushed by a person.
- A sort of Russian salad, originally using French salad dressing.
Synonyms edit
- (sauce): French dressing, Italian dressing, Greek dressing, vinaigrette dressing, vinaigrette sauce, vinaigrette salad sauce
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
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Anagrams edit
Danish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French vinaigrette.
Noun edit
vinaigrette c (singular definite vinaigretten, not used in plural form)
- vinaigrette (sauce)
Declension edit
common gender |
Singular | |
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indefinite | definite | |
nominative | vinaigrette | vinaigretten |
genitive | vinaigrettes | vinaigrettens |
References edit
Finnish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French vinaigrette.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈʋineɡretːe/, [ˈʋine̞ɡˌre̞t̪ːe̞]
- IPA(key): /ˈʋinɑi̯ɡretːe/, [ˈʋinɑ̝i̯ɡˌre̞t̪ːe̞]
- Syllabification(key): vi‧naig‧ret‧te
Noun edit
vinaigrette
- vinaigrette (sauce)
Declension edit
Inflection of vinaigrette (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | vinaigrette | vinaigrettet | ||
genitive | vinaigretten | vinaigrettejen | ||
partitive | vinaigrettea | vinaigretteja | ||
illative | vinaigretteen | vinaigretteihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | vinaigrette | vinaigrettet | ||
accusative | nom. | vinaigrette | vinaigrettet | |
gen. | vinaigretten | |||
genitive | vinaigretten | vinaigrettejen vinaigretteinrare | ||
partitive | vinaigrettea | vinaigretteja | ||
inessive | vinaigrettessa | vinaigretteissa | ||
elative | vinaigrettesta | vinaigretteista | ||
illative | vinaigretteen | vinaigretteihin | ||
adessive | vinaigrettella | vinaigretteilla | ||
ablative | vinaigrettelta | vinaigretteilta | ||
allative | vinaigrettelle | vinaigretteille | ||
essive | vinaigrettena | vinaigretteina | ||
translative | vinaigretteksi | vinaigretteiksi | ||
abessive | vinaigrettetta | vinaigretteitta | ||
instructive | — | vinaigrettein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading edit
- “vinaigrette”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
vinaigrette f (plural vinaigrettes)
- vinaigrette (sauce), French dressing
Descendants edit
- → Catalan: vinagreta
- → English: vinaigrette
- → Russian: винегре́т m (vinegrét)
Etymology 2 edit
From vinaigre (root of vinaigrier, which it resembles) + -ette.
Noun edit
vinaigrette f (plural vinaigrettes)
- vinaigrette (vehicle)
Further reading edit
- “vinaigrette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.