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ma⋅ri⋅na⋅ra

  [mahr-uh-nahr-uh, mar-uh-nar-uh]
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–noun
1. Italian Cookery. a highly seasoned sauce of tomatoes, garlic, and spices.
–adjective
2. garnished or served with marinara: shrimps marinara.
Origin:
1945–50; < It (alla) marinara lit., in sailor's style, fem. of marinaro seafaring (adj.), sailor (n.) (dial., for Tuscan marinaio), equiv. to marin(a) sea, n. use of fem. of marino marine + -aro < L -ārius -ary
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ma·ri·na·ra   (mār'ə-nār'ə, mär'ə-när'ə)   
adj.  Being or served with a sauce of tomatoes, onions, garlic, and spices: spaghetti marinara.
n.  Marinara sauce.

[Italian (alla) marinara, in sailor style, feminine of marinaro, of the sea, sailor, from marino, marine; see marina.]
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