tamale
Two tamales.
Meaning
Noun
- Mexican dish of cornmeal dough shell filled with various ingredients (e.g. chopped beef, pork, sweet filling) then steamed in corn husks.
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Origin
- from the plural tamales, from Spanish tamales, plural of tamal, from Nahuatl tamalli ("wrapped").
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