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Authentic Italian Salami
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Italian sausage, kielbasa, dry and hard, lamb, beef and pork salami.
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sa⋅la⋅mi

[suh-lah-mee]
–noun
a kind of sausage, originally Italian, often flavored with garlic.

Origin:
1850–55; < It, pl. of salame < VL *salāmen, equiv. to *salā(re) to salt + L -men n. suffix; see sal
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Authentic Italian Salami
Natural, hand cured by Cristiano Sopressata, Barolo, and more
www.creminelli.com
Gourmet Salami Online
Italian sausage, kielbasa, dry and hard, lamb, beef and pork salami.
www.markys.com
sa·la·mi   (sə-lä'mē)   
n.   pl. sa·la·mis
Any of various highly spiced and salted sausages, made from beef or a mixture of pork and beef.

[Italian, pl. of salame, salami, from Vulgar Latin *salāmen, from *salāre, to salt, from Latin sāl, salt; see sal- in Indo-European roots.]
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salami 
"salted, flavored It. sausage," 1852, from It. salami, pl. of salame "spiced pork sausage," from V.L. *salamen, from *salare "to salt," from L. sal (gen. salis) "salt" (see salt).
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Salumi
High Quality Cured Meats & Poultry Available from Williams-Sonoma.
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