kaoliang
Americannoun
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a variety of grain sorghum.
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a liquor made from kaoliang stalks.
noun
Etymology
Origin of kaoliang
< Chinese (Wade-Giles) kao1liang 2 , (pinyin) gāoliang ( gāo high + liáng millet)
Example Sentences
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Kinmen's economic future lies with China and its vast supply of tourists and kaoliang customers, Li believes.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2014
Kinmen officials are scrambling to reinvent the island's economy, seeking to increase exports of its famously strong kaoliang liquor.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2014
Along a battered railway in North Shansi, where the year's last tasseled kaoliang still stands unreaped, the biggest, bloodiest battle in a year of China's civil war has just ended.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shadowy figures ran crouching through the tall kaoliang grass and the southbound express whistled in the distance.
From Time Magazine Archive
The waning moon, lower than ever in the horizon, shed a pale light over the water-logged country out of which peered the tall kaoliang in ominous black patches.
From Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy by Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox)
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