charqui
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of charqui
From South American Spanish, from Quechua ch'arki
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She shared a shred of llama charqui, or jerky.
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2010
To-day I saw and tasted the jerked beef, charqui, of Spanish South America.
From Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 by Maria Graham
The reason for so preserving it, is the scarcity of salt, which in the districts where charqui prevails, is difficult to be got at, and, in consequence, dear.
From Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco by F.C. Tilney
"And now, Lopez, what amount of charqui have we in store?"
From On the Pampas by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Sometimes it was merely cut in strips, roughly rubbed with brine, and hung in the sun to dry into charqui, or jerked beef.
From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by John Masefield
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