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momme

[mom-ee]

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noun, plural mom·me.

a Japanese unit of weight equal to 3.75 grams.

Origin of momme

1720–30; < Japanese, equivalent to mon- letter (< Middle Chinese, equivalent to Chinese wén) + -me(y) eye (earlier *mai)

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Examples from the Web for momme

Historical Examples of momme

The average weight of Japanese is recorded as 13 kwan 830 momme.
The Foundations of Japan
J.W. Robertson Scott
Persimmons of a hundred momme (375 grammes) each; twenty cartloads for the profit of the house at the fall of the year.
The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari
James S. De Benneville