(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
An ~ is something that is specially produced to be sold.
It was very, very good, far better than vegetarian ~s in many a posh restaurant.
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2.
An ~ is a gift that people offer to their God or gods as a form of worship.
...the holiest of the Shinto rituals, where ~s are made at night to the great Sun.
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