Associations to the word «Bordelaise»

Wiktionary

BORDELAISE, noun. (cooking) A brown sauce, having ingredients that include dry red wine and bone marrow
BORDELAISE SAUCE, noun. A French sauce made with dry red wine, bone marrow, butter, shallots, and demiglace, and traditionally served with beef.

Dictionary definition

BORDELAISE, noun. Brown sauce with beef marrow and red wine.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats