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braise

noun
/bɹeɪz/

Etymology

From French braise (“live coals”) and braiser (“to braise”, from the noun), from Old French brese (“embers”), from Old Low Franconian/Old Dutch; akin to Norwegian/Swedish braseld (“sparkling fire”), Norwegian/Swedish dialectal brasa (“to roast”), Danish dialectal brase (“to flambé, enflame”). Perhaps from Gothic *𐌱𐍂𐌰𐍃𐌰 (*brasa, “glowing coal”), from Proto-Germanic *brasō (“gleed, crackling coal”), Proto-Indo-European *bʰres- (“to crack, break, burst”). Cognate with Icelandic brasa (“to harden by fire”). See burst.

  1. derived from *bʰres-✻ — “to crack, break, burst”
  2. derived from *brasō✻ — “gleed, crackling coal”
  3. derived from *𐌱𐍂𐌰𐍃𐌰✻ — “glowing coal”
  4. derived from brese
  5. borrowed from braise — “live coals”

Definitions

  1. Alternative spelling of braze.

  2. A dish (usually meat) prepared by braising.

    • Pot roast is typically a braise, as is osso buco.

  3. A sauce used for braising.

    • Braised cabbage is cooked in a braise of sliced bacon, one or two thickly sliced onions, one or two sliced carrots, parsley, thyme, a bay leaf, and stock to nearly cover.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. To cook in a small amount of liquid, in a covered pan, somewhere between steaming and…

      To cook in a small amount of liquid, in a covered pan, somewhere between steaming and boiling.

    2. Alternative spelling of braze (joining non-ferrous metal using a molten filler metal)

    3. Pagellus bogaraveo, syn. Pagellus centrodontus (sea bream)

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA