masa

[mah-suh, mah-sah]

noun

Mexican Cooking.

1. flour or dough made of dried, ground corn, used especially for tortillas.

Word History and Origins

Origin of masa¹

< Spanish: dough < Latin massa; mass

Example Sentences

For chicken nuggets, tortilla-based masa and jalapeño buttermilk coatings were the key.

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Having lived in Brooklyn on-and-off, I’ve wandered these streets for years, yet every trip is a culinary adventure — from Astoria taquerias with freshly pressed masa to Upper East Side hotels with thoughtful cocktails.

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Specializing in Northern and Coastal Mexican cuisine, the kitchen grinds 150 pounds of heritage corn into fresh masa each week, pressing it to order for every tortilla.

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He had come with his granddaughter, 6-year-old Masa, from his home in a Damascus suburb, hoping to plead with a manager to OK a larger withdrawal.

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Masa looked at her grandfather and didn’t say a word.

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