béarnaise sauce
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béar·naise sauce
(bâr-nāz′, bā′är-, -ər-)n.
A sauce of butter and egg yolks that is flavored with vinegar, wine, shallots, tarragon, and chervil.
[French béarnaise, feminine of béarnais, of Béarn.]
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