samshu

American  

[sam-shoo, -syoo] / ˈsæm ʃu, -syu /

noun

1. a Chinese liqueur distilled from millet or rice.

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samshu British  

/ ˈsæmʃuː, -sjuː /

noun

1. an alcoholic drink from China that is made from fermented rice and resembles sake

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Etymology

Origin of samshu

1690–1700; < dialectal Chinese (Guangdong) sàam-sìu, akin to Chinese sān shāo three boilings, brewings

Example Sentences

He was holding in his hand a blue china bowl filled with samshu.

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Mr. and Mrs. Newbegin were waiting on the veranda and the marines had been having a little samshu.

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At present, however, Chinese traders are the only smugglers, and the spirit they introduce, samshu, runs only occasional risk of confiscation, as the trade of the junks is for the most part in places seldom visited by the occasional patrolling steamer.

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Gently rousing her and speaking soothing words he held out his humble offering of two little bowls containing rice and samshu, some sticks of incense and a few tiny candles.

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Then reinforced by fresh thousands of throats, doubtless wetted by copious drafts of samshu, it grew again suddenly, rising stronger and stronger, hoarser and hoarser, more insane and more possessed, until the tympanums of our ears were so tortured that they seemed fit to burst.

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