Meunière (Originally means "miller's wife") especially for refers fish sauce and a method of fish preparation, to cook something à la meunière was to cook it by first dredging it in flour and a simple preparation to make a meunière sauce.

There are two primary ways to prepare the fish by sautéing—first dredging the fish in seasoned flour (white flour or corn flour) and then cooking in a hot sauté pan with a small amount of clarified butter and other method is to pan-fry or deep fry

Snapper à la Meunière