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Parmesan

2 stages from Italian to English.

Today it means a hard, granular Italian cheese, traditionally aged and grated
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Parma
Italian · medieval
"an Italian city name"
a city in northern Italy famous for its hard, aged cheese
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parmesan
English · 1500s
"a hard, aged Italian cheese"
adopted directly for the hard, aged cheese named after the city
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