Pastrami


[puh-strah-mee] /pəˈstrɑ mi/

noun
1.
a brisket of beef that has been cured in a mixture of garlic, peppercorns, sugar, coriander seeds, etc., then smoked before cooking.
/pəˈstrɑːmɪ/
noun
1.
highly seasoned smoked beef, esp prepared from a shoulder cut
n.

1940, from Yiddish pastrame, from Rumanian pastrama, probably from Turkish pastrima, variant of basdirma “dried meat,” from root *bas- “to press.” Another possible origin of the Rumanian word [Barnhart] is Modern Greek pastono “I salt,” from classical Greek pastos “sprinkled with salt, salted.” Spelling in English with -mi probably from influence of salami.

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