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
Dinner-time came, for which meal John Manning had prepared a very satisfactory dish from some charqui flavoured with fruit and vegetables, and the boys anxiously waited again for some communication from the colonel.
From Real Gold A Story of Adventure by George Manville Fenn
Their dinner was to consist of but one dish, a cross between fish and flesh,—a cross between fresh and dried,—for the peixe-boi was still but half converted into charqui.
From Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops by Mayne Reid
They dared not light a fire, but chewed some of the tough charqui, and watched the distant cleft in the hills which led to the ardently wished-for goal.
From Out on the Pampas Or, The Young Settlers by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
They dared not light a fire, but chewed some of the tough charqui, and watched the distant cleft in the hill which led to the ardently wished-for goal.
From On the Pampas by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
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