Bordelaise sauce

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Bordelaise sauce

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Partial calque of French sauce bordelaise (literally “sauce of Bordeaux”).

noun Bordelaise sauces

uncountable, usually A French sauce made with dry red wine, bone marrow, butter, shallots, and demiglace, and traditionally served with beef.
Similar: bordelaise

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@misc{bordelaise_sauce_2026,
  title = {Bordelaise sauce},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bordelaise%20sauce},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}