nori

[ nawr-ee ]

noun,plural no·ris.Cooking.

a seaweed having a mildly sweet, salty taste, usually dried, used in Japanese cuisine mainly as a wrap for sushi.

Origin of nori

First recorded in 1890–95; from Japanese: literally, “edible seaweed, laver,” equivalent to no “water” + ri “lichen, moss”

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How to use nori in a sentence

There is no happiness within this circle of flesh, noris it in the optics of these eyes to behold felicity.
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Di Noris was Bishop of Trent for 13 years, from 1763 to 1776.
Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240 | Anonymous
Noris quam elegans formarum spectator fiem—You shall see how nice a judge of beauty I am.
Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources | James Wood
They have likewise hogs with horns, and excellent talking parrots, which they call Noris .
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British Dictionary definitions for nori

nori

/ (ˈnɔːrɪ) /

noun

an edible seaweed often used in Japanese cookery, esp for wrapping sushi or rice balls

Origin of nori

Japanese

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