chinois

 

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• chinoise

Borrowed from French chinois. Doublet of Chinese.

chinois (plural chinoises)

1. (cooking) A fine-meshed conical strainer.
   • 2007 February 21, “Recipe: Maple Crema”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Strain through a chinois or fine-meshed sieve to remove any lumps of yolk.

• food mill
• tamis

•   Chinoise on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Chine (“China”) +‎ -ois (“-ese”).

• (France) IPA^(key): /ʃi.nwa/

• Audio:

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• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /ʃi.nwa/ ~ /ʃi.nwɑ/

chinois m (uncountable)

1. Chinese (language)
2. Greek (something difficult to understand)

chinois (feminine chinoise, masculine plural chinois, feminine plural chinoises)

1. (relational) of China; Chinese

• “chinois”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• chiions