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salsa
[ sahl-suh; Spanish sahl-sah ]
noun
- Mexican Cooking. a hot sauce of tomatoes and chile peppers with onion and garlic, and sometimes seasoned with cumin or fresh cilantro, often used as a condiment or served as a dip.
- a lively, vigorous type of contemporary Latin American popular music, blending predominantly Cuban rhythms with elements of jazz, rock, and soul music.
- a ballroom dance of Puerto Rican origin, performed to this music, similar to the mambo, but faster with the accent on the first beat instead of the second beat of each measure.
verb (used without object)
- to dance the salsa.
salsa
/ ˈsælsə /
noun
- a type of Latin American big-band dance music
- a dance performed to this kind of music
- Mexican cookery a spicy tomato-based sauce
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Example Sentences
Occasionally a pamphlet for a salsa class might be tossed on a doorstop or stuck on a pole near a bus stop.
At under 200 pages, the book seems like chips and salsa on the table when you are expecting a four course meal.
It is served atop tamarind butter sauce and topped with grilled pineapple salsa.
Chile relleno is another meatless meal, served in a mild salsa ranchero redolent of tomatoes.
They ate chips and salsa and guacamole and steak fajitas and slept in a real bed for the first time in days, indoors.
I stepped into the nearest burrito joint and ordered one with carnitas -- shredded pork -- and extra salsa.
The Italians call a preface salsa del libro, the salt of the book.
In the same locality is the basilica of Saint Salsa erected over her tomb.
You could serve her old tires and she'd eat 'em if she could smother them in salsa.
Baldissera opened negotiations with the negus through Major Salsa, and simultaneously reorganized the Italian army.
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