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roux
/ɹu/
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What does roux mean?
noun
- A mixture of fat (usually butter) and flour used to thicken sauces and stews.
proper noun
- A speedsolving method in which the user solves a Rubik's cube block-by-block rather than layer-by-layer.
- A surname
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IPA pronunciation
/ɹu/
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Making a roux by frying two ounces of butter with two ounces of flour, and add two tablespoonsful of boiling stock.
He destroyed one half of the egg after the first segmentation and found that the half which remained alive gave rise to only one half of an embryo, thus confirming an older observation of Roux.
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Its fur is bushy, and of a reddish brown; the breast and belly are covered with fine hair, and not bare as in the mono colorado, or alouate roux of Buffon, which we carefully examined in going from Carthagena to Santa Fe de Bogota.