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vinaigrette.

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.

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Meaning & usage

noun/vɪnəˈɡɹɛt/
  1. 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.

    countable · uncountable
  2. A small perforated box for holding aromatic vinegar contained in a sponge, or a smelling bottle for smelling salts

    countable · obsolete · uncountable
  3. A small, two-wheeled vehicle, like a litter, to be drawn or pushed by a person. They were used in France until the late 18th century.

    countable · historical · uncountable
  4. Alternative form of vinegret (“type of Russian salad”).

    alt-of · alternative · countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from French vinaigrette. Sense 4 (“type of Russian salad”) is a semantic loan from Russian винегре́т (vinegrét), whence also the doublet vinegret.

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