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Sake

2 stages from Japanese to English.

Today it means a fermented Japanese alcoholic beverage made from rice
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Stage 1 of 2
sake
Japanese · ancient
"alcoholic drink, rice wine"
the general word for alcoholic drink, narrowed to mean fermented rice wine
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Stage 2 of 2
sake
English · 1687
"a fermented Japanese rice beverage"
adopted directly for the fermented Japanese rice beverage
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