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queso
Spanish · 1500s
"cheese"
cheese, combined with a diminutive suffix for a small cheese-filled dish
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quesadilla
Mexican Spanish · 1600s
"a folded, cheese-filled tortilla"
settled in Mexico for the folded, cheese-filled tortilla dish
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quesadilla
English · 1900s
"a folded tortilla filled with cheese and other ingredients"
adopted directly as Mexican cuisine spread internationally
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