brown sauce
noun
: a sauce consisting typically of stock thickened with flour browned in fat
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The dish also includes a duck glaze, or gravy, made with either chicken or veal demi-glace (a rich brown sauce) or low-sodium chicken stock. 
Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2022 Other items include beef back ribs, St. Louis-style ribs, a tri-tip take on a French dip sandwich with Cajun brown sauce, smoky-bean breakfast burritos, thick-cut-bacon BLTs and shrimp po’boys. Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2022 This is a dark brown sauce that looks like soy sauce, but is made from the sap of a coconut plant (not the actual coconut) without any soy or wheat. Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Mar. 2022 Contrary to popular opinion, Cincinnati’s dining scene is not strictly composed of spaghetti drowned in a soupy brown sauce the locals insist is chili, topped overzealously with a heap of shredded cheddar cheese. Sean M. Peters, chicagotribune.com, 8 Feb. 2022 Queen Elizabeth has released her own brand of condiments, including tomato ketchup and brown sauce (which is like a steak sauce). Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 28 Jan. 2022 The messmen had already laid out the midrats in two stainless-steel vats, one filled with a dark-colored meat in a brown sauce and the other filled with a light-colored meat in a white sauce. Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 2 Mar. 2021 Homestyle means pork adobo ($10.50 for a plate dinner), fatty chunks of pork stewed in brown sauce like a Sunday roast over white rice. Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 9 Apr. 2020 This thick, dark brown sauce is a staple in Chinese family-style cooking. NBC News, 13 Oct. 2019 See More
Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2022 Other items include beef back ribs, St. Louis-style ribs, a tri-tip take on a French dip sandwich with Cajun brown sauce, smoky-bean breakfast burritos, thick-cut-bacon BLTs and shrimp po’boys. Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2022 This is a dark brown sauce that looks like soy sauce, but is made from the sap of a coconut plant (not the actual coconut) without any soy or wheat. Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Mar. 2022 Contrary to popular opinion, Cincinnati’s dining scene is not strictly composed of spaghetti drowned in a soupy brown sauce the locals insist is chili, topped overzealously with a heap of shredded cheddar cheese. Sean M. Peters, chicagotribune.com, 8 Feb. 2022 Queen Elizabeth has released her own brand of condiments, including tomato ketchup and brown sauce (which is like a steak sauce). Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 28 Jan. 2022 The messmen had already laid out the midrats in two stainless-steel vats, one filled with a dark-colored meat in a brown sauce and the other filled with a light-colored meat in a white sauce. Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 2 Mar. 2021 Homestyle means pork adobo ($10.50 for a plate dinner), fatty chunks of pork stewed in brown sauce like a Sunday roast over white rice. Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 9 Apr. 2020 This thick, dark brown sauce is a staple in Chinese family-style cooking. NBC News, 13 Oct. 2019 See More Word History
First Known Use
1723, in the meaning defined above