chinois

See also: Chinois

English

A chinois

Alternative forms

chinoise

Etymology

Borrowed from French chinois. Doublet of Chinese.

Noun

chinois (plural chinoises)

(cooking) A fine-meshed conical strainer.
- 2007 February 21, “Recipe: Maple Crema”, in New York Times‎:
  Strain through a chinois or fine-meshed sieve to remove any lumps of yolk.

Coordinate terms

Translations

fine-meshed conical strainer

Catalan: xinès (ca) m, colador xinès m
Valencian: xinés (ca) m, colador xinés m
French: chinois (fr) m
Japanese: シノワ (shinowa)
Spanish: chino (es) m, colador chino m

See also

Chinoise on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(France) IPA^(key): /ʃi.nwa/
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(Quebec) IPA^(key): /ʃi.nwa/, /ʃi.nwɑ/

Noun

chinois m (uncountable)

Chinese (language)
Greek (something difficult to understand)

Derived terms

Adjective

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

(relational) of China; Chinese

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Anagrams

chiions

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