soy sauce

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Noun

soy sauce (countable and uncountable, plural soy sauces)

  1. A condiment sauce and ingredient, common in Asian cuisine, made from fermented soybeans, salt, and sometimes wheat.
    Synonyms: soy, (Philippines) toyo
    Hyponyms: tamari, shoyu

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References

  • 1897 Universal Dictionary of the English Language, Robert Hunter and Charles Morris, eds., v4 p4363

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