Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A rich creamy sauce made of butter, egg yolks, and lemon juice or vinegar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Cookery) A sauce consisting essentially of a seasoned emulsion of butter and yolk of eggs with a little lemon juice or vinegar.
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- noun An
emulsion ofbutter andlemon juice usingegg yolks as the emulsifying agent, used inFrench cooking.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From French (sauce) Hollandaise, Holland-style, from Hollande, Holland.]
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From French hollandaise ("Dutch") and English sauce.
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