butter sauce

noun

1. a sauce made of melted butter, often diluted with water, sometimes thickened with flour or egg yolk, or both, and seasoned with lemon juice.

Word History and Origins

Origin of butter sauce¹

An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900

Example Sentences

Alternatively, it can be served alongside a light brown sugar butter sauce.

From Salon

Choices include cod with butter sauce and red potatoes or spicy chicken with udon.

From Seattle Times

He taught me how to cook escargot, orange roughy with almonds with lemon butter sauce with white wine.

From Seattle Times

Surely the most used of the fall and winter squash contingent, you’ll find it featured prominently in soups, but also in stuffed pastas tossed with brown butter sauce or as simple sides, cubed and roasted with olive oil, maple or brown sugar.

From Salon

For steaks — especially ones served with a brown butter sauce — vanilla is a sweet beacon in a heavily savory sea.

From Salon