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Hoisin sauce

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Noun
  1. 1
    A thick, pungent, dark, sweet and salty sauce made from soy, garlic and chili, used in Chinese cooking. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    a thick sweet and pungent Chinese condiment wordnet

Etymology

Partial calque from Cantonese 海鮮醬／海鲜酱 (hoi2 sin1 zoeng3, literally “seafood sauce, sauce for seafood”).

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