mantou

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Definition of mantou

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

Chinese steamed bun (without any filling)

““You sit down and eat mantous and soy milk,” she ordered.”
“On nous apporta du thé, du riz et des mantous – des petits pains de farine de blé.”
“He wished he had more of the mantous that they’d been given in Shanghai. His younger sister couldn’t stop remarking how delicious the Chinese breads were. The mantous had been a welcome change from the muei (Chinese porridge) on which they had been subsisting for so long.”

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Borrowed from Mandarin 饅頭／馒头 (mántou). Doublet of mandu, manju, and manti.

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