demi-glace

noun

: a highly concentrated reduced brown sauce often used as a base for other sauces

Examples of demi-glace in a Sentence

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From airy emulsions and shimmering sabayons to seductive béarnaise and brooding demi-glace, classic French sauces are reappearing—not just in fine dining restaurants and traditional bistros, but also in natural wine bars and small-plate restaurants. Joel Hart, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025 Take a recipe like a demi-glace. Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2025 Copper is an ideal vessel for the type of precision cooking restaurants require—things like maintaining oil temperature when frying wafer thin strips of potato or ensuring a demi-glace doesn’t get scorched at the edges. Alaina Chou, Bon Appetit Magazine, 24 June 2025 Having shown his talent for seafood, the chef sent out velvety, succulent pork belly confit with pickled fennel and carrots in a rich demi-glace. John Mariani, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025 Cook’s note: Look for packaged demi-glace in gourmet stores and some grocery stores. Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 21 Dec. 2024 Its heat caresses a skewer of marshmallow-tender veal sweetbreads shining beneath a lip-sticky demi-glace. Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024 With Ramsay working the room and discussing all things F1, guests will dine on his famed Beef Wellington, paired with potato puree, glazed root vegetables, red wine demi-glace, and the crave-worthy Sticky Toffee Pudding with speculoos ice cream. Mark Gray, People.com, 14 Oct. 2024 The bold burger with a whiskey demi-glace and habanero aioli, though, stood out as a dish of Sacramento’s early 2010s. Benjy Egel, Sacramento Bee, 23 May 2024

Word History

Etymology

French, half cooking stock, literally, half-ice

First Known Use

1900, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of demi-glace was in 1900

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“Demi-glace.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/demi-glace. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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