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Definitions for tamaletəˈmɑ li

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

ta•ma•letəˈmɑ li(n.)(pl.)-les.

  1. minced and seasoned meat packed in cornmeal dough, wrapped in corn husks, and steamed.

    Category: Cooking

Origin of tamale:

1850–55; MexSp tamales, pl. of tamal < Nahuatl tamalli Amerind

Princeton's WordNet

  1. Tamale(noun)

    a city in northern Ghana

  2. tamale(noun)

    corn and cornmeal dough stuffed with a meat mixture then wrapped in corn husks and steamed

Wiktionary

  1. tamale(Noun)

    Mexican dish of cornmeal dough shell filled with various ingredients (e.g. chopped beef, pork, sweet filling) then steamed in corn husks.

    2. Origin: plural tamales, from tamales, plural of tamal, from tamalli .

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