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mortadella

[ mawr-tuh-del-uh ]

noun

  1. a large Italian sausage of pork, beef, and pork fat chopped fine, seasoned with garlic and pepper, cooked, and smoked.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of mortadella1

1605–15; < Italian < Latin murtāt ( um ) sausage seasoned with myrtle ( murt ( um ) myrtle-berry + -ātum, neuter of -ātus -ate 1 ) + -ella diminutive suffix
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Example Sentences

Several Cubans worked together to cook rice with mortadella, cheese-filled tacos, and rice with beans.

This time his look was indignant as he exclaimed: "But, signor, it is mortadella!"

For instance, at Naples we had the famous Mortadella sausage for breakfast, and being engaged in eager conversation, I forgot him.

Hence the mortadella a mortatula, still so calld by the Italians, perhaps the of Athenæus, deip.

Mortadella, a favorite Italian sausage, is made from lean pork ham meat chopped very fine.

I wish I could send a man from Fortnum and Mason's out to you with a chunk of mortadella.

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