salami

[ suh-lah-mee ]

noun

1. a kind of sausage, originally Italian, often flavored with garlic.

salami

/ səˈlɑːmɪ /

noun

1. a highly seasoned type of sausage, usually flavoured with garlic

Word History and Origins

Origin of salami¹

1850–55; < Italian, plural of salame < Vulgar Latin *salāmen, equivalent to *salā ( re ) to salt + Latin -men noun suffix; sal

Word History and Origins

Origin of salami¹

C19: from Italian, plural of salame, from Vulgar Latin salāre (unattested) to salt, from Latin sal salt

Example Sentences

This article is adapted from one written by Ladan Salami on IranWire.

From The Daily Beast

Phillip also orders us a mixed meat and cheese platter with aged comté, Alsacian tomme, chèvre, salami, and duck confit.

From The Daily Beast

And food was largely the work of women, with the exception of salami and wine, which the men always made.

From The Daily Beast

The end of the war on salami will come as welcome relief to Americans like Rey Knight.

From The Daily Beast

In this case, Burghoff, usually only a mediocre player, got it right: “salami.”

From The Daily Beast

There were sandwiches of salami and anchovies, purple and white figs, a fiasco of red wine from Solcio.

From Project Gutenberg

Hams, salami and bunches of herbs hung from the smoky rafters.

From Project Gutenberg

It came like salami, in a tube, and was nothing but congealed blood from animals.

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She was dandling a sad baby while the sad baby sucked a disk of salami, heavy with spices.

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She fed him as he drove, slicing cheese and putting it on crackers with bits of olive or pepper or salami.

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