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sake
noun as in benefit, gain
noun as in reason, objective
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Example Sentences
The leather-faced old sots tossed their long reddish-grey locks in the air, and pirouetted round the big saké jar.
Even the little infants guzzled quantities of the yellow saké from the shallow cups of very thin red-lacquered wood.
The liquid refreshments consisted of sweet and clear saké (rice beer) tea, and cherry-blossom water.
On returning to my former kneeling-place one of the priests offered me saké and a small piece of dried fish in paper.
I found that there were 23 registered geisha, no joro, 50 teahouse girls with dubious characters and 55 sellers of saké.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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