chinois
See also: Chinois
English edit
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from French chinois. Doublet of Chinese.
Noun edit
chinois (plural chinoises)
- (cooking) A fine-meshed conical strainer.
- 2007 February 21, “Recipe: Maple Crema”, in New York Times[1]:
- Strain through a chinois or fine-meshed sieve to remove any lumps of yolk.
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fine-meshed conical strainer
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French edit
Etymology edit
From Chine (“China”) + -ois (“-ese”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
chinois m (uncountable)
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Adjective edit
chinois (feminine chinoise, masculine plural chinois, feminine plural chinoises)
- (relational) of China; Chinese
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Further reading edit
- “chinois”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.