Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A sauce made with onions or onion purée.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A cravat of a fashion worn by men toward the close of the eighteenth century.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A sauce made of white onions and melted butter mixed with velouté sauce.
  • noun A kind of cravat worn by men in the late 18th century.

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  • noun A béchamel-based sauce containing strained or puréed onions.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun veloute sauce with sauteed chopped onions and whipping cream

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, after Charles de Rohan, Prince de Soubise, (1715–1787), French soldier.]

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French

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Examples

  • Go for the galette soubise (onions cooked in muscadet) and crêpe pomme maison flambée au calvados – your palate (and wallet) will be forever grateful.

    Classic France: the insiders' guide 2011

  • The book of the feted Sydney restaurant features dishes such as "slow braised Berkshire pig jowl, maltose crackling, prunes, soubise cream perfumed with prune kernel oil" and another that uses 20 varieties of radish and turnip.

    The 25 best cookbooks of 2010 Ian Tucker 2010

  • Each dinner sounded more delectable than the one before: roasted local grass-fed goat loin chops with farro-spinach salad and sweet onion soubise, kombu cured fluke with yuzu, brown butter, wakame and preserved nori, a dinner with a puppetry theatre accompaniment, an Argentinian asado of grilled offal, a backyard barbecue of grilled flank steak with chimicurri and chorizo.

    Reason for Not Eating Out #31: Because Supper Clubs are Blowing Up 2009

  • Each dinner sounded more delectable than the one before: roasted local grass-fed goat loin chops with farro-spinach salad and sweet onion soubise, kombu cured fluke with yuzu, brown butter, wakame and preserved nori, a dinner ...

    Not Eating Out in New York » 2009 » April 2009

  • Pour this round the dish and put the soubise sauce in the centre.

    The Art of Living in Australia 2004

  • His address was followed by a standing ovation and three-course dinner of filet medallions topped with onion soubise and complimented by a sweet pepper and drambuie sauce with chocolate

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Pound three quarters of a pound of chicken, veal or rabbit until quite smooth, then pound one half pound of panada (bread soaked in hot milk), and mix the two together, add two tablespoonfuls of thick soubise sauce, an ounce and a quarter butter, two tablespoons sherry, a little pepper and salt and three whole eggs.

    My Pet Recipes, Tried and True Contributed by the Ladies and Friends of St. Andrew's Church, Quebec Various

  • Pour this round the dish and put the soubise sauce in the centre.

    The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett

  • The meal itself had but slight pretensions to elegance; there were neither vol au vents, nor croquettes; neither were there poulets aux truffes, nor cotelletes a la soubise but in their place stood a lordly fish of some five-and-twenty pounds weight,

    The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 3 Charles James Lever 1839

  • The meal itself had but slight pretensions to elegance; there were neither vol au vents, nor croquettes; neither were there poulets aux truffes, nor cotelletes a la soubise but in their place stood a lordly fish of some five-and-twenty pounds weight,

    The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete Charles James Lever 1839

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  • Velouté, in some recipes,

    Must mother a proper soubise,

    But there’s little loss

    In milkier sauce,

    So bêchamel serves in a squeeze.

    March 3, 2019