gari
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of gari
C20: Japanese
Example Sentences
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They go to school with a bag of gari in their "chop box".
From BBC • May 28, 2022
The various meals they make with gari in dormitories are called soakings.
From BBC • May 28, 2022
“Everything has got better – my quality of life, my knowledge, my tools. I’ve gained so much,” he says of the 20 years since he started working as a gari.
From The Guardian • Jul. 19, 2015
Salt was $20 a cup and gari, a leached cassava that tastes like sawdust, cost $1 for three cups.
From Time Magazine Archive
We sat cross-legged on the floor and ate with our hands, and the gari wasn’t even fresh.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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