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English
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Alternative forms
[edit]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.
Coordinate terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]fine-meshed conical strainer
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See also
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Chine (“China”) + -ois (“-ese”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]chinois m (uncountable)
Derived terms
[edit]Adjective
[edit]chinois (feminine chinoise, masculine plural chinois, feminine plural chinoises)
- (relational) of China; Chinese
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “chinois”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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