: a highly seasoned sausage of pork and beef either dried or fresh
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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 Corn carbonara with pan-fried salami and Calabrian chili at Bordo.—Rachel Monroe, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025 But our house pizza toppings are usually some type of salami or pepperoni, red onion, and bell peppers.—Bon Appétit, 6 Feb. 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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