n. 1. See bitter orange. 2. A rich sauce served with duck, consisting of thickened stock flavored with the rind of bitter oranges, and often with lemon juice and sugar. [French, from Provençal bigarrado, variegated, bigarade (bitter oranges possibly being so called from varieties with striated fruit or variegated foliage), from past participle of bigarrar, to variegate, from Middle French bigarrer : bi-, two (from Latin; see BI-1) + garre, of two colors (from Old French, of unknown origin).] |
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