joss stick

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   a slender stick of incense burned before a joss by the Chinese

   Broaderincense

Questions about joss stick

What does joss stick mean?

joss stick means "a slender stick of incense burned before a joss by the Chinese".

Is joss stick a common word?

joss stick is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.