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kyan

kyan noun: a hot sauce prepared from cayenne pepper. Also the alternative spelling of cayenne.

Noun

kyan (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) A hot sauce prepared from cayenne pepper.
    • Not but that a grilled salmon, with a spoonful or two of Burgess’s new sauce, and a small matter of genuine kyan, is a mighty pleasant thing after half a dozen hours’ fishing, with the mountain-breeze blowing briskly in one’s face, and creating an appetite that might relish (almost) a smoked fox.1829, Piscator [pseudonym], “Fly-fishing in Wales—Letter III”, in Sporting Magazine, volume 24, number October 1829, page 406

Proper noun capitalized: Kyan

Kyan

  1. A surname

Also used as

kyan is also the alternative spelling of cayenne.

Questions about kyan

What does kyan mean?
Kyan means a hot sauce prepared from cayenne pepper.
What part of speech is kyan?
Kyan can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near kyan in the dictionary

  1. kyaks
  2. Kyalite
  3. kyamancha
  4. kyamanchas
  5. Kyamba
  6. kyan
  7. kyang
  8. Kyang-si
  9. kyangs
  10. kyanisation
  11. kyanise

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