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ルー [gai1] ルウ
1. [n] {food, cooking} Source lang: fre
▶ roux
2. [n] [col] {food, cooking}
▶ (Japanese) curry sauce



History:
6. A 2023-10-30 20:13:18  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
5. A* 2023-10-30 16:52:42  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
No need to explain what roux is.
Certainly curry roux is made from curry powder. I don't think ルー refers to a powder itself. None of my refs describe it as such.
 
Sankoku describes the "sauce" sense as colloquial.

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーー─┬────────┬───────╮
│ ルーを入れ │ 11,769 │ 93.1% │
│ ルウを入れ │    878 │  6.9% │
├─ーーーーー─┼────────┼───────┤
│ ルーを使っ │  8,876 │ 78.4% │
│ ルウを使っ │  2,439 │ 21.6% │
╰─ーーーーー─┴────────┴───────╯
  Diff:
@@ -15,2 +15 @@
-<gloss>roux (mixture of butter and flour used to make sauces)</gloss>
-<gloss>sauce made from such a mixture</gloss>
+<gloss>roux</gloss>
@@ -21,2 +20,2 @@
-<gloss>(Japanese) curry powder</gloss>
-<gloss>curry sauce made from this powder</gloss>
+<misc>&col;</misc>
+<gloss>(Japanese) curry sauce</gloss>
4. A 2020-03-23 11:07:29  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
3. A* 2020-03-22 22:09:44  Guillem Palau-Salvà
  Diff:
@@ -12,0 +13 @@
+<field>&food;</field>
@@ -18,0 +20 @@
+<field>&food;</field>
2. A 2012-01-08 11:17:52  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
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