sakes
8.4
Different bottles or types of Japanese rice wine
- noun
- /sɑːkɛs/
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sakes
- The restaurant offers several types of sakes, including junmai and ginjo, to pair with your meal.
Like Suzuki Kawasaki sushi sake, like Shiitaki.
- Like Suzuki Kawasaki sushi sake, like Shiitaki.
Examples
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At the tasting event, we sampled different sakes from various regions of Japan.
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She brought a selection of fruity sakes to the party, perfect for a warm summer evening.
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They have a tea bath, a coffee bath, a sake bath, a red wine bath.
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Like Suzuki Kawasaki sushi sake, like Shiitaki.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sakes comes from the Japanese word sake, which means 'Japanese rice wine'. So when English speakers talk about different sakes they simply mean many bottles or kinds of that rice wine.
