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A simple white sauce made from a roux of butter and flour to which hot milk is added.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: white sauce
Antonyms: none provided
Alternative letter-case form of béchamel sauce.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Partial calque of French sauce béchamel, named after French gastronome Louis Béchameil de Nointel (1630–1703).
Across languages
Translations
46 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
صَلْصَة بَشَامِيل
(ṣalṣat bašāmīl)
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Catalan:
beixamel
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Chinese Mandarin:
貝夏梅爾調味醬 /贝夏梅尔调味酱
(bèixiàméi'ěr tiáowèijiàng)
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Chinese Mandarin:
白汁
(báizhī)
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Chinese Mandarin:
白醬 /白酱
(báijiàng)
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Chinese Mandarin:
貝夏媚醬 /贝夏媚酱
(bèixiàmèijiàng)
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Czech:
bešamel
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Dutch:
bechamelsaus
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Esperanto:
beŝamelo
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Finnish:
valkokastike
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Finnish:
béchamelkastike
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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French:
sauce béchamel
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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French:
béchamel
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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French:
béchamelle
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Galician:
bechamel
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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German:
Béchamelsauce
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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German:
Béchamelsoße
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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German:
Milchsoße
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Greek:
σάλτσα μπεσαμέλ
(sáltsa besamél)
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Greek:
μπεσαμέλ
(besamél)
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Hungarian:
besamelmártás
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Irish:
brachán bán
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Irish:
brachán plúir
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Italian:
besciamella
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Japanese:
ベシャメルソース
(beshameru sōsu)
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Japanese:
ホワイトソース
(howaito sōsu)
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Kazakh:
бешамель
(beşamel)
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Polish:
beszamel
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Polish:
biały sos
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Portuguese:
molho bechamel
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Portuguese:
bechamel
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Russian:
бешаме́ль
(bešamélʹ)
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Serbo-Croatian:
бешаме̏л
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Serbo-Croatian:
бешаме̏л со̑с
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Serbo-Croatian:
bešamȅl
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Serbo-Croatian:
bešamȅl sȏs
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Spanish:
bechamel
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Spanish:
besamel
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Spanish:
bechamela
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Spanish:
besamela
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Spanish:
salsa blanca
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Swedish:
béchamelsås
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Turkish:
beşamel
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Turkish:
beşamel sos
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Welsh:
grefi gwyn
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk
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Welsh:
grefi llaeth
— white sauce made with butter, flour and milk