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I've been told by an Indian cook that the English derived the word "curry" from the Tamil word "kari" meaning sauce.
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I've been told by an Indian cook that the English derived the word "curry" from the Tamil word "kari" meaning sauce.
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Oxford judges that tinplate has lost its hyphen during the past ten years, and that kari, the French word for ` curry, 'should now be spelled karri with a double r.
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The biggest turn on for a Lo’kari is genetic diversity.
365 tomorrows » J.R. Blackwell : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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The biggest turn on for a Lo’kari is genetic diversity.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » April : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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The man and woman stayed in bed and drank kari, which is brewed from potatoes, peas, and sugar, and in Herero means "the drink of death."
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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The interval during which time the coffin remained there was termed kari-mo-gari, or
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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The meat dishes cooked with (black) pepper were called kari in Tamil, a word now used in English as curry.
The Acorn 2009
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Nandita, DO you think we should officially all change the spelling of dry subzis to "kari" instead of "curry"?
Traditional Lunch Series - Day 3 ( Keerai Milagoottal, Cabbage Curry ) 2008
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Kanara and Malayalam _kadi_; pronounced with a hard _r_, 'kari' or
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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