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# roux

«roux» in Mova's school dictionary: **a mixture of melted butter (or fat) and flour cooked…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a roux, roux or rouxs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (cooking) A roux is a mixture of melted butter (or fat) and flour cooked together, used to thicken sauces, soups and gravy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roux/#m1)

2) Roux is also a French word meaning reddish-brown; it is a French surname too. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roux/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In cooking lessons, a roux is the first step of white sauce for macaroni cheese or lasagne: melt butter, stir in flour, then slowly add milk. In Cajun and Creole cooking from Louisiana, a dark roux gives flavour to gumbo. The word is French.

### examples

- Melt the butter, add the flour, and stir to make a roux. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roux/#x1)
- Slowly whisk milk into the roux for a smooth white sauce. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roux/#x2)
- A roux thickens the gravy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roux/#x3)
- Cook the roux for a minute so it doesn't taste of flour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roux/#x4)
- Gumbo in Louisiana starts with a dark brown roux. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roux/#x5)
- Our cheese sauce was lumpy because the roux was too hot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roux/#x6)
- Use the same amount of butter and flour for a roux. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roux/#x7)

### note

Say "roo"; the x is silent (French). Plural is the same (roux) or sometimes rouxs. Safety: hot fat burns, so an adult should help at the cooker.

### In the corpora

- [Hair has its own words: a girl with dark hair is brune, and ginger hair is roux or rousse, never rouge.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/9-colours/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «roux» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roux/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.