Vinaigrette vs Dressing - What's the difference?
vinaigrette | dressing |
A sauce, made of vinegar, oil, and other ingredients, used especially for cold meats, or as a salad dressing.
(obsolete) A small perforated box for holding aromatic vinegar contained in a sponge, or a smelling bottle for smelling salts; called also vinegarette.
(obsolete) A small, two-wheeled vehicle, like a Bath chair, to be drawn or pushed by a boy or man.
A sort of Russian salad, originally using French salad dressing.
(medicine) Material applied to a wound for protection or therapy.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=5 A sauce, especially a cold one for salads.
Something added to the soil as a fertilizer etc.
The activity of getting dressed.
* 2004 , Kathryn Banks, ?Joseph Harris, Exposure: Revealing Bodies, Unveiling Representations (page 182)
(obsolete) Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.
The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat.
Gum, starch, etc., used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.
An ornamental finish, such as a moulding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling.
(dated) Castigation; scolding; dressing down.
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In obsolete terms the difference between vinaigrette and dressing
is that vinaigrette is a small, two-wheeled vehicle, like a Bath chair, to be drawn or pushed by a boy or man while dressing is dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.As nouns the difference between vinaigrette and dressing
is that vinaigrette is a sauce, made of vinegar, oil, and other ingredients, used especially for cold meats, or as a salad dressing while dressing is material applied to a wound for protection or therapy.As a verb dressing is
present participle of lang=en.vinaigrette
English
(Webster 1913)Alternative forms
* vinegarette (box for vinegar or smelling salts )Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (sauce) French dressing, vinaigrette dressing, vinaigrette sauceDerived terms
* vinaigrette dressing * vinaigrette sauceAnagrams
* * ----dressing
English
(wikipedia dressing)Noun
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- Considered thus, the performance is a translation into images of bodies on display, as is well demonstrated by Monsieur Jourdain's repeated dressings and undressings.
- (Ben Jonson)
