vinaigrette
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A bottle of oil and balsamic vinegar for making vinaigrette in an Italian restaurant in Singapore 
Drawing of vinaigrette (perforated box)
See also: Vinaigrette
English
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vinaigrette”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Alternative forms
- vinegarette (box for vinegar or smelling salts)
Etymology
Borrowed from French vinaigrette.
Pronunciation
Noun
vinaigrette (countable and uncountable, plural vinaigrettes)
- A sauce, made of an acidic liquid such as vinegar or lemon juice; oil; and other ingredients, used as a salad dressing, or as a marinade for cold meats.
- (obsolete) A small perforated box for holding aromatic vinegar contained in a sponge, or a smelling bottle for smelling salts; called also vinegarette.
- 1858, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, What will he do with it?:
- Lady Selina smells at her vinaigrette, and replies in her softest, affectedest, civilest, and crushingest manner— "Poor—DEAR—OLD MAN!"
- (obsolete) A small, two-wheeled vehicle, like a Bath chair, to be drawn or pushed by a person.
- A sort of Russian salad, originally using French salad dressing.
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Synonyms
- (sauce): French dressing, Italian dressing, Greek dressing, vinaigrette dressing, vinaigrette sauce, vinaigrette salad sauce
Derived terms
Translations
sauce
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small box for holding vinegar or smelling salts
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vehicle
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a Russian salad
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from French vinaigrette.
Noun
vinaigrette c (singular definite vinaigretten, not used in plural form)
- vinaigrette (sauce)
Declension
Declension of vinaigrette
| common gender |
Singular | |
|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | vinaigrette | vinaigretten |
| genitive | vinaigrettes | vinaigrettens |
References
Finnish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from French vinaigrette.
Pronunciation
Noun
vinaigrette
- vinaigrette (sauce)
Declension
| Inflection of vinaigrette (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | vinaigrette | vinaigrettet | ||
| genitive | vinaigretten | vinaigrettejen | ||
| partitive | vinaigrettea | vinaigretteja | ||
| illative | vinaigretteen | vinaigretteihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | vinaigrette | vinaigrettet | ||
| accusative | nom. | vinaigrette | vinaigrettet | |
| gen. | vinaigretten | |||
| genitive | vinaigretten | vinaigrettejen vinaigretteinrare | ||
| partitive | vinaigrettea | vinaigretteja | ||
| inessive | vinaigrettessa | vinaigretteissa | ||
| elative | vinaigrettesta | vinaigretteista | ||
| illative | vinaigretteen | vinaigretteihin | ||
| adessive | vinaigrettella | vinaigretteilla | ||
| ablative | vinaigrettelta | vinaigretteilta | ||
| allative | vinaigrettelle | vinaigretteille | ||
| essive | vinaigrettena | vinaigretteina | ||
| translative | vinaigretteksi | vinaigretteiksi | ||
| abessive | vinaigrettetta | vinaigretteitta | ||
| instructive | — | vinaigrettein | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
Further reading
- “vinaigrette”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
vinaigrette f (plural vinaigrettes)
- vinaigrette (sauce), French dressing
Descendants
- → Catalan: vinagreta
- → English: vinaigrette
- → Russian: винегре́т m (vinegrét)
Etymology 2
From vinaigre (root of vinaigrier, which it resembles) + -ette.
Noun
vinaigrette f (plural vinaigrettes)
- vinaigrette (vehicle)
Further reading
- “vinaigrette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.