sauté

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sau·té / sôˈtā; sō-/ • adj. 1. fried quickly in a little hot fat: sauté potatoes.2. Ballet (of a step) performed while jumping.• n. a dish cooked in such a way.• v. (-tés, -téed / -ˈtād/ or -téd, -téing / -ˈtāing/ ) [tr.] cook in such a way: sauté the onions in the olive oil.

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English

sauté

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sauté To toss in hot fat, from the French sauter, to jump. Sauté potatoes are usually boiled, cut into slices, and cooked in a little fat until lightly browned.

A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition DAVID A. BENDER

sauté

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sauté fried in a pan, being tossed from time to time. XIX. — F., pp. of sauter leap :- L. saltāre, used trans. in causative sense.

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology T. F. HOAD

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