Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Velouté

Velouté , noun

[French velouté, lit., velvety.]

(Cookery) A white sauce or stock made by boiling down ham, veal, beef, fowl, bouillon, etc., then adding soup stock, seasoning, vegetables, and thickening, and again boiling and straining.

Also: Sauce veloute, Veloute