"mirin" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Japanese 味醂 (mirin).",
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          "ref": "1989 November, Drew DeSilver, Jan Gahala, “What is that stuff?”, in Vegetarian Times, →ISSN, page 43",
          "text": "Although naturally brewed mirin is made from only water, sweet brown rice, and rice koji, much of the mirin sold in natural food stores and Oriental markets is sweetened with sugar or corn syrup; read labels carefully.",
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        {
          "ref": "2017, James Peterson, Sauces: Classical and Contemporary Sauce Making, HarperCollins",
          "text": "Teriyaki sauce, a mixture of mirin, sake, soy sauce, and sometimes sugar, may be brushed on meats, fish, or vegetables […]",
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      "translations": [
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          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "roman": "mei⁶ lam⁴, mei⁶ lam⁵",
          "sense": "Japanese rice wine, less alcoholic than sake",
          "word": "味醂"
        },
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "wèilǎn, wèilín",
          "sense": "Japanese rice wine, less alcoholic than sake",
          "word": "味醂"
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          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "Japanese rice wine, less alcoholic than sake",
          "word": "mirin"
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          "roman": "mirin",
          "sense": "Japanese rice wine, less alcoholic than sake",
          "word": "味醂"
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          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "Japanese rice wine, less alcoholic than sake",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "mirin"
        }
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "mei⁶ lam⁴, mei⁶ lam⁵",
      "sense": "Japanese rice wine, less alcoholic than sake",
      "word": "味醂"
    },
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "wèilǎn, wèilín",
      "sense": "Japanese rice wine, less alcoholic than sake",
      "word": "味醂"
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      "sense": "Japanese rice wine, less alcoholic than sake",
      "word": "mirin"
    },
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      "roman": "mirin",
      "sense": "Japanese rice wine, less alcoholic than sake",
      "word": "味醂"
    },
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      "sense": "Japanese rice wine, less alcoholic than sake",
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