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Definition of Mornay
1. Adjective. (context: postpositive sometimes capitalized) Served with a white sauce containing cheese ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mornay
1. cream sauce with cheese [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mornay
Literary usage of Mornay
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature by John McClintock, James Strong (1883)
"His father, James de mornay, was a zealous Uoman Catholic, but his mother, who
inclined to the Protestant doctrines, gave her son a tutor who held the same ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1862)
"MADAME DE mornay.* THIS notice of a very remarkable French •woman of the latter part
... Of course, what it tells of Madame de mornay is, so far as it goes, ..."
3. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"mornay, Done in English by the Countesse of Pembroke. London : Printed for W.
Ponsonby. 1600. 12mo. OF " Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother," Collins, ..."
4. Memoirs of the Duke of Sully: Prime Minister to Henry the Great by Maximilien de Béthune Sully, Walter Scott (1890)
"... and returns home—Nicole Mignon attempts to poison the King—A public dispute
between the Bishop d'Evreux and Du Plessis-mornay—New subterfuges of the ..."
5. The Concise Dictionary of Religious Knowledge and Gazetteer by Talbot Wilson Chambers, Frank Hugh Foster, Samuel Macauley Jackson (1889)
"When Henry IV. turned Roman Catholic, from political reasons, the friendship
between him and mornay grew cold, but the latter continued to be the champion ..."
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