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soy sauce

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
soy/sɔɪ/

▶noun

1 (also soy sauce) a sauce made with fermented soya beans, used in Chinese and Japanese cooking.

2 another term for soya.

– origin from Japanese shō-yu, from Chin. shi-yu, from shi ‘salted beans’ + yu ‘oil’.

'soy sauce' also found in these Oxford entries:

oyster sauce - ponzu - sashimi - shoyu - soy - soya - tamari - teriyaki - Worcester sauce

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