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temaki

temaki noun: a type of sushi in the form of a cone.

temaki: a type of sushi in the form of a cone
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Noun

temaki (uncountable)

  1. A type of sushi in the form of a cone.
    • Two years ago, the chefs Taka Sakaeda and Jihan Lee, with their partner, the operations director Lisa Limb, established a branch of this restaurant in the West Village, an elegantly spare, pale space specializing in temaki, the open hand rolls.2021 October 5, Florence Fabricant, “Nami Nori Branches Out With a Williamsburg Space”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Origin of temaki

Borrowed from Japanese 手巻き (temaki).

Questions about temaki

What does temaki mean?
Temaki means a type of sushi in the form of a cone.
What part of speech is temaki?
Temaki is a noun.

Words near temaki in the dictionary

  1. temafloxacin
  2. Temagami
  3. temagamite
  4. Temagog
  5. temak
  6. temaki
  7. temaks
  8. temalacatl
  9. temalacatls
  10. temanite
  11. temari

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