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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Joss stick (0.00863 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to Joss stick.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: joss stick
joss stick
n : a slender stick of incense burned before a joss by the
Chinese
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Joss stick
Joss
\Joss\ (j[o^]s), n. [Chinese, corrupt. fr. Pg. deos God, L.
deus.]
A Chinese household divinity; a Chinese idol.
“Critic in
jars and josses.” --Colman (1761).
[1913 Webster]
Joss house, a Chinese temple or house for the Chinese mode
of worship.
Joss stick, a reed covered with a paste made of the dust of
odoriferous woods, or a cylinder made wholly of the paste;
-- burned by the Chinese before an idol.
[1913 Webster]
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