temaki

[ te-mah-kee ]

nounJapanese Cooking.

cold boiled rice moistened with rice vinegar, wrapped together with strips of vegetable or raw fish in a sheet of dried seaweed and rolled into a cone shape.

Origin of temaki

¹

First recorded in 1980–85; from Japanese: literally, “hand roll”

Also called hand roll .

Sometimes te·ma·ki-zu·shi [te-mah-kee-zoo-shee] /tɛˈmɑ kiˈzu ʃi/

See also sushi.

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How to use temaki in a sentence

Here, the vocabulary of fast food for many young Brazilians is temaki (hand rolls) instead of burgers and fries.
Meet the Chef Fighting to Ensure That Brazilians Will Never Be as Fat as Americans | Brandon Presser | June 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
In some areas, the concept of a “temaki shop” is the local equivalent of a by-the-slice pizza parlor.
Meet the Chef Fighting to Ensure That Brazilians Will Never Be as Fat as Americans | Brandon Presser | June 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST

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