noun
cream sauce
A sauce made with cream, used in Western-style cooking. Common in dishes like pasta, gratin, and stews.
今夜はクリームソースのパスタを作ろう。
Let's make pasta with cream sauce tonight.
このグラタンにはたっぷりのクリームソースがかかっている。
This gratin is covered with plenty of cream sauce.
ホワイトソース is a béchamel-based white sauce, while クリームソース is a broader term for any cream-based sauce, often richer and made with fresh cream.
Variant with interpunct; less common in everyday writing.
Loanword from English 'cream sauce'.