brown sauce

noun

1. a simple sauce made from reduced meat stock; espagnole.

Example Sentences

How do we know they don’t indicate a desire to brighten up pictures — to get away from the “brown sauce school” that the new painters who revered Édouard Manet were so keen to leave behind?

From Washington Post

She recalled Hollyoaks actor Jamie Lomas being obsessed with bacon sandwiches and said that at least four or five times he went round everyone in the camp asking if they preferred red or brown sauce.

From BBC

For the filling, you simply combine sliced turkey with a quickly made brown sauce scented with orange and enriched with sautéed pearl onions and dried cranberries.

From Seattle Times

In England, a traditional cooked breakfast consists of sausages, grilled tomato, mushrooms, bacon, beans, fried egg, fried bread, black pudding, toast, tea, hash browns and brown sauce.

From Washington Post

Duck comes with two sauces: a plum sauce — fruit conserved with sugar and vinegar — and a brown sauce — duck juices and drippings mixed with soy.

From Seattle Times