noun
osechi; New Year's food
Abbreviation of お節料理. Refers to traditional Japanese dishes served in stacked boxes during the New Year's holidays.
See also: お節料理
お正月には家族でおせちを食べます。
We eat osechi with the family on New Year's.
今年のおせち
This year's osechi had especially delicious black soybeans.
Full form of おせち; more formal and explicit, but the abbreviated おせち is far more common in everyday speech.
Abbreviation of お節料理 (osechi ryōri), literally 'seasonal dishes'. The word 節 (sechi) originally referred to seasonal festivals, and the prefix お is honorific.