vinaigrette

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: vin=ai=grette

CIDE DICTIONARY

vinaigrette, n. [F., fr. vinaigre vinegar.].

•  A sauce, made of vinegar, oil, and other ingredients, -- used esp. for cold meats.  [1913 Webster]
•  A small perforated box for holding aromatic vinegar contained in a sponge, or a smelling bottle for smelling salts; -- called also vinegarette.  [1913 Webster]
•  A small, two-wheeled vehicle, like a Bath chair, to be drawn or pushed by a boy or man.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

vinaigrette, n.
1 (in full vinaigrette sauce) a salad dressing of oil, wine vinegar, and seasoning.
2 a small ornamental bottle for holding smelling-salts.

Etymology

F, dimin. of vinaigre VINEGAR

ROGET THESAURUS

vinaigrette

Fragrance

N fragrance, aroma, redolence, perfume, bouquet, essence, scent, sweet smell, aromatic perfume, agalloch, agallochium, aloes wood, bay rum, calambac, calambour, champak, horehound, lign-aloes, marrubium, mint, muskrat, napha water, olibanum, spirit of myrcia, essential oil, incense, musk, frankincense, pastil, pastille, myrrh, perfumes of Arabia, otto, ottar, attar, bergamot, balm, civet, potpourri, pulvil, nosegay, scentbag, sachet, smelling bottle, vinaigrette, eau de Cologne, toilet water, lotion, after-shave lotion, thurification, perfumer, eucalyptus oil, pinene, fragrant, aromatic, redolent, spicy, savory, balmy, scented, sweet-smelling, sweet-scented, perfumed, perfumatory, thuriferous, fragrant as a rose, muscadine, ambrosial.