Rice wine; a drink made from filtered fermented rice.
Origin
Borrowed from Japanese 酒 ("rice wine"), where the final e is accented to indicate that it is pronounced where it would usually remain silent in other senses of sake, as well as to differentiate it. Likely influenced by French saké.
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