vinaigrette

• vinegarette (box for vinegar or smelling salts)

Borrowed from French vinaigrette.^[1] Sense 4 (“type of Russian salad”) is a semantic loan from Russian винегре́т (vinegrét), whence also the doublet vinegret.

• enPR: vĭn-ə-grĕtʹ, IPA^(key): /vɪnəˈɡɹɛt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

vinaigrette (countable and uncountable, plural vinaigrettes)

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.

   Synonym: (archaic) vinegarette

2. (obsolete) A small perforated box for holding aromatic vinegar contained in a sponge, or a smelling bottle for smelling salts

   Synonym: vinegarette

   • 1858, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, What will he do with it?:

     Lady Selina smells at her vinaigrette, and replies in her softest, affectedest, civilest, and crushingest manner— "Poor—DEAR—OLD MAN!"

3. (historical) 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.
5. Alternative form of vinegret (“type of Russian salad”).

• (sauce): French dressing, Italian dressing, Greek dressing, vinaigrette dressing, vinaigrette sauce, vinaigrette salad sauce

• vinaigrette dressing
• vinaigrette sauce

• integrative, vertiginate

Borrowed from French vinaigrette.

vinaigrette c (singular definite vinaigretten, not used in plural form)

1. vinaigrette (sauce)

• “vinaigrette” in Den Danske Ordbog

• vinegrette
• vinegretti

Borrowed from French vinaigrette.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋineɡretːe/, [ˈʋine̞ɡˌre̞t̪ːe̞]
• IPA^(key): /ˈʋinɑi̯ɡretːe/, [ˈʋinɑ̝i̯ɡˌre̞t̪ːe̞]
• Rhymes: -etːe
• Syllabification^(key): vi‧naig‧ret‧te
• Hyphenation^(key): vi‧naig‧ret‧te

vinaigrette

1. vinaigrette (sauce)

• “vinaigrette”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 4 July 2023

• IPA^(key): /vi.nɛ.ɡʁɛt/ ~ /vi.ne.ɡʁɛt/

• Audio:

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From vinaigre +‎ -ette.

vinaigrette f (plural vinaigrettes)

1. vinaigrette (sauce), French dressing

• → Catalan: vinagreta
• → English: vinaigrette
• → Russian: винегре́т m (vinegrét)
  • → English: vinegret; → vinaigrette (semantic loan)

From vinaigre (root of vinaigrier, which it resembles) +‎ -ette.

vinaigrette f (plural vinaigrettes)

1. vinaigrette (vehicle)

• “vinaigrette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.