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bean curd

British  

noun

  1. another name for tofu

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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She challenged readers to experiment at home, in a 1981 column, for example, describing a summer dish of iced Japanese bean curd “livened” with astringent ginger and dried seaweed.

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2023

We are vegetarian, so we’ll order the veggie egg rolls, the veggie chow fun, fried rice for the kids, sesame bean curd and those fried noodles that you dip in duck sauce.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2022

The options for the sides are spicy pig ear, shredded potato, braised tofu, bean curd, braised egg, seaweed, braised napa cabbage, spiced peanuts, pickled mustard greens and pickled cucumbers.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2021

Plastic dairy products, American cheeses, eggs, bananas, pineapple, tandoori chicken, bean curd, labane, sweet corn, honey roasted ham, nutella, peanut butter, jelly?

From Salon • Sep. 14, 2021

He dropped the ball, and Shirley fell on top of the bag like a piece of ripe bean curd.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord

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