Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The operation by which the pearly luster is given to commercial rice. It consists in rubbing the cleaned grain with soft moose-hide or sheepskin within a wire-gauze cylinder and giving it at the same time a thin coating of paraffin by inclosing with it lumps of that substance. See
rice-flour , 2.
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Examples
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One morning the man who ran the village rice-polishing machine and his wife set out in their sampan for the district town of Binh Son.
The Village Bing West 2000
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One morning the man who ran the village rice-polishing machine and his wife set out in their sampan for the district town of Binh Son.
The Village Bing West 2000
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One morning the man who ran the village rice-polishing machine and his wife set out in their sampan for the district town of Binh Son.
The Village Bing West 2000
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One morning the man who ran the village rice-polishing machine and his wife set out in their sampan for the district town of Binh Son.
The Village Bing West 2000
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