mirin

[ mir-in ]

noun
  1. a Japanese cooking wine made from rice, sweeter than sake.

Origin of mirin

1
First recorded in 1870–75; from Japanese mirin, equivalent to mi “taste, flavor” + rin “to remove astringency,” both from Middle Chinese

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How to use mirin in a sentence

  • They are cooked in mirin, a kind of sweet liquor made from sak, and you eat all you can pick off the bones with your hashi.

  • In the next mirin taking oversight of the monastery of Banchor.

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  • St. mirin's Aisle was erected in 1499, and there is a large pointed window in the east end, having jambs with single shafts.

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  • In the next St. Congal putting the religious habit on mirin.

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  • St. mirin's Chapel is well preserved, but the openings connecting it with the south transept are built up.

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