: a highly seasoned sausage of pork and beef either dried or fresh
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The buffet style menu includes polenta to combine with Aosta Valley meats, lasagna, mixed salad, and local salami and cheeses.—Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025 This combo of salami and Italian sausage with San Marzano tomatoes and mozzarella gets my chef’s kiss.—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 2 Jan. 2025 The concept of salami tactics essentially captures the Biden administration’s strategy.—Michael Poznansky, Foreign Affairs, 3 Jan. 2025 What started as salami and a little bit of cheese from the deli blossomed into over-the-top sandwiches.—The Editors, Outside Online, 27 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for salami
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Etymology
borrowed from Italian, plural of salame "cured salted and seasoned pork sausage," from sale "salt" (going back to Latin sal-, sāl) + -ame "things made from or containing (the material denoted by the preceding element)," going back to Latin -āmen, from -ā-, verb stem formative + -men, resultative noun suffix — more at salt entry 1
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