hoisin sauce

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Definitions of hoisin sauce words

noun hoisin sauce a thick, sweet, spicy condiment containing soybeans, sugar, garlic, and chili peppers, used in cooking or as an accompaniment to meat, fish, or poultry, especially Peking duck. 1
noun hoisin sauce a dark, spicy sauce used in Chinese cooking, made of fermented rice, soy beans, vinegar, sugar, salt, and chili 0
noun hoisin sauce A thick, pungent sauce made from soy, garlic and chili which is sweet and salty in taste and darkly coloured in appearance and used in Chinese cooking. 0

before 1960

One of the 3% newest English words

1960-65; < dialectal Chinese (Guangdong) hóisīn, equivalent to Chinese hǎixiān seafood

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