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Sweet-and-sour sauce

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A sticky sauce used in Chinese cuisine that tastes both sugary and tart. countable, uncountable

Etymology

Calque of Chinese 甜酸醬 /甜酸酱 (tiánsuānjiàng, literally “sweet sour sauce”).

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