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poi Hawaiian; bread baked from dough made with starchy fruit or tubers, unripe banana, taro or cocoyam that is left for several days or weeks to undergo a lactic acid fermentation before drying or baking.

A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition DAVID A. BENDER

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poi (It.). Then, e.g. (after some direction for the repetition of a passage) poi la coda, then the coda.

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE

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