velouté

Borrowed from French velouté (“velvety, smooth”)

velouté (plural veloutés)

1. (cooking) A mother sauce in French cuisine, consisting of a light stock thickened with a blond roux.

• evolute

From velours. See also velu (“hairy”), inherited from Late Latin villūtus, ultimately from Latin villus (“hair, tuft of hair”). Cognate with English velvet.

• IPA^(key): /və.lu.te/

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velouté (feminine singular veloutée, masculine plural veloutés, feminine plural veloutées)

1. velvety
2. smooth

• velouter

velouté m (plural veloutés)

1. smoothness, softness
2. (cooking) a velouté

• “velouté” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• IPA^(key): /beluˈte/, [beluˈt̪e]

velouté f (plural veloutés)

1. velouté