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名詞

curry stuff (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 curry stuffs)

1. The ingredients that are ground to make curry powder.
   • 1871, Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia (volume 1)

     The curry powders of India are articles of considerable commercial traffic; 32,550 cwt. of curry stuff was imported into Ceylon, chiefly from India, in 1851.

   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 127:

     The Gulnare brought us a few comforts in the shape of fresh provisions, fruits and curry stuffs, for which the Malayan Archipelago is famous, and with her came a supply of cocoanuts, which would have fully stocked an average plantation.

   • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 115:

     The air was all smell – curry-stuff, durian, fish and flesh – and the noise was of hoicking and chaffering.