pastrami
[ puh-strah-mee ]
noun
a brisket of beef that has been cured in a mixture of garlic, peppercorns, sugar, coriander seeds, etc., then smoked before cooking.
Origin of pastrami
11935–40; <Yiddish pastrame<Romanian pastramă pressed, cured meat; a Balkanism of uncertain origin (compare Modern Greek pastramâs,Serbo-Croatian pȁstrma), perhaps ultimately <Turkish pastιrma, taken as variant of bastιrma, equivalent to bastιr-, causative stem of bas- press, squeeze + -ma verbal noun suffix
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British Dictionary definitions for pastrami
pastrami
/ (pəˈstrɑːmɪ) /
noun
highly seasoned smoked beef, esp prepared from a shoulder cut
Origin of pastrami
1from Yiddish, from Romanian pastramǎ, from pǎstra to preserve
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