: a highly seasoned sausage of pork and beef either dried or fresh
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For example, a 2-ounce serving of turkey contains about 440 mg (18% DV) of sodium, while a 2-ounce serving of salami has 590 mg (25% DV) of sodium.4
3.—Ann Pietrangelo, Verywell Health, 30 Apr. 2025 The restaurant highlights farmhouse shared plates with seasonally changing options such as truffle and cuttlefish salami and smoked lamb rump.—Kaila Yu, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024 Made up of cubed salami, cracked black pepper and provolone cheese, lard bread almost feels more like a savory cake.—Kaitlyn Rosati, New York Daily News, 23 Apr. 2025 To crisp-cook salami, first cut each slice into slivers.—Erin Hooker, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Apr. 2025 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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