polished rice

American  

noun

1. white rice polished or buffed by leather-covered cylinders during processing.

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Etymology

Origin of polished rice

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

Their fellow tenants now share the roasted-chestnut-and-mushroom perfume of Aspergillus oryzae, or koji, growing on steamed, polished rice.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2018

At the time, white rice, otherwise known as polished rice, was something of a luxury—or at least not something you’d give to laboratory chickens that you wanted to infect with a deadly disease.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2015

The Department of Agriculture estimates that on average arsenic levels are 10 times as high in rice bran as in polished rice.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2014

They are protected by import tariffs in excess of 700 percent for polished rice.

From Reuters • Mar. 14, 2011

It is undoubtedly true that the use of polished rice is a cause of beri-beri, because the Dayaks, with their primitive methods of husking, never suffer from this disease, although rice is their staple food.

From Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 by Lumholtz, Carl