velouté
See also: veloute
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French velouté (“velvety, smooth”).
Noun edit
velouté (plural veloutés)
- (cooking) A mother sauce in French cuisine, consisting of a light stock thickened with a blond roux.
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French edit
Etymology edit
From velours. See also velu (“hairy”), inherited from Late Latin villūtus, ultimately from Latin villus (“hair, tuft of hair”). Cognate with English velvet.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
velouté (feminine veloutée, masculine plural veloutés, feminine plural veloutées)
Derived terms edit
Noun edit
velouté m (plural veloutés)
- smoothness, softness
- (cooking) a velouté
Further reading edit
- “velouté”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
velouté f (plural veloutés)