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awamori

awamori noun: a Japanese alcoholic beverage made from rice via distillation.

awamori: a Japanese alcoholic beverage made from rice via distillation
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Noun

awamori (usually uncountable, plural awamoris)

  1. (usually) A Japanese alcoholic beverage made from rice via distillation.
    • Awamori, distilled only on Okinawa from ground Thai long-grain rice, is considered to be the best shochu. […] Good awamoris are stored in underground clay vessels for several years.2008, André Dominé, Barbara E. Euler, Wolfgang Faßbender, Matthias Stelzig, translated by Ann Drummond, Rosemary Lawrey, and Katherine Taylor, “Shochu is everything”, in The Ultimate Bar Book: The...

Forms of awamori

pluralawamoris

Origin of awamori

From Japanese 泡盛 (awamori).

Questions about awamori

What does awamori mean?
Awamori means a Japanese alcoholic beverage made from rice via distillation.
What part of speech is awamori?
Awamori is a noun.
What is the plural of awamori?
The plural of awamori is awamoris.

Words near awamori in the dictionary

  1. AWALT
  2. Awalts
  3. awameh
  4. Awami League
  5. Awamoan
  6. awamori
  7. awamoris
  8. Awan
  9. Awang East
  10. Awang West
  11. awanting

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