Vinaigrette

Definition: Vinaigrette

Vinaigrette

Noun

1. Oil and vinegar with mustard and garlic.

Date "vinaigrette" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1852. (references)

Etymology: Vinaigrette \Vin`ai*grette"\, noun. [French expression, from vinaigre vinegar.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Vinaigrette

Synonym: sauce vinaigrette (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Vinaigrette

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The word vinaigrette can refer to:

An emulsion of vinegar (or sometimes lemon juice) and vegetable oil, often flavored with herbs, spices, and other ingredients. Vinaigrettes are used as sauces in many cuisines, and as salad dressings. This is the most common use of the word.
A small container with a perforated top, used to contain an aromatic substance such as vinegar or smelling salts (also called a vinegarette).
A bath chair.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Vinaigrette."

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Crosswords: Vinaigrette

English words defined with "vinaigrette": anchovy dressing ♦ blue cheese dressing ♦ dressing ♦ half-and-half dressing ♦ Italian dressing ♦ Lorenzo dressing ♦ Roquefort dressing ♦ salad dressing, sauce vinaigrette ♦ Vinegarette. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Vinaigrette" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (french dressing, vinaigrette), German (french dressing).

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Usage Frequency: Vinaigrette

"Vinaigrette" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.22% of the time. "Vinaigrette" is used about 59 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	93.22%	55	45,713
Noun (common)	6.78%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	59	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Vinaigrette

Expressions using "vinaigrette": sauce vinaigrette ♦ vinaigrette souce. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vinaigrette

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
vinaigrette	51	apple vinaigrette	3
raspberry vinaigrette	44	salad vinaigrette	3
balsamic vinaigrette	28	balsamic vinaigrette dressing	3
vinaigrette recipe	19	rasberry vinaigrette	3
balsamic recipe vinaigrette	17	dressing raspberry recipe vinaigrette	3
raspberry vinaigrette recipe	9	dressing red salad vinaigrette wine	3
vinaigrette dressing	9	recette vinaigrette	3
strawberry vinaigrette	7	dressing fat free herb vinaigrette	2
dressing recipe vinaigrette	5	recipe strawberry vinaigrette	2
vinaigrette salad dressing	5	recipe red vinaigrette wine	2
raspberry vinaigrette dressing	5	balsamic dressing recipe vinaigrette	2
red vinaigrette wine	5	balsamic dressing salad vinaigrette	2
citrus vinaigrette	5	grecque vinaigrette	2
lemon vinaigrette	4	balsamic dressing friday salad tgi vinaigrette	2
		basil vinaigrette	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Vinaigrette

Language		Translations for "vinaigrette"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏المثقبة. (various references)

Bulgarian		сос (dressing, liquor, relish, sauce), шишенце за парфюм, винегрет. (various references)

Chinese		香醋�'. (various references)

Czech		kyselá zálivka. (various references)

French		vinaigrette. (various references)

German		Riechfläschchen (vinaigrettes). (various references)

Greek		φιάλη όξουσ (cruet), λαδόξιδο. (various references)

Hungarian		burnótszelence. (various references)

Pig Latin		inaigrettevay

Spanish		vinagreta (salad dressing). (various references)

Swedish		vinägrett, luktflaska (scent bottle). (various references)

Turkish		salata sosu (dressing, salad dressing, vinaigrette souce), nişadırruhu şişesi. (various references)

Ukranian		приправа (condiment, dressing, flavoring, flavouring, seasoning, trimmings). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Vinaigrette

Derivations
	Words beginning with "vinaigrette": vinaigrettes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Vinaigrette" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: vinagrette. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Vinaigrette

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: integrative.
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-i-i-n-r-t-t-v"
	-2 letters: argentite, integrate, iterating, iterative, itinerate, revetting, rivetting, vignetter.
	-3 letters: agentive, aigrette, antevert, attiring, averting, ergative, everting, genitive, gnattier, gratinee, grievant, inertiae, interage, intertie, negative, reignite, reinvite, retinite, riveting, treating, vegetant, vignette, vintager.
	-4 letters: airting, arenite, ariette, avenger, engrave, entreat, eviting, gittern, granite, grantee, gratine, greaten, igniter, inertia, ingrate, integer, intreat, invitee, inviter, iterant.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-i-i-n-r-t-t-v"
	+1 letter: vinaigrettes.
	+2 letters: interrogative, reintegrative, reinvestigate.
	+3 letters: disintegrative, interrogatives, overestimating, redintegrative, reinvestigated, reinvestigates, seronegativity, tergiversating, tergiversation.
	+4 letters: interrogatively, reinvestigating, reinvestigation, tergiversations.
	+5 letters: hyperventilating, magnetostrictive, reinvestigations, seronegativities.
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