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Salami

2 stages from Italian to English.

Today it means a cured, air-dried sausage, typically seasoned and salted
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Stage 1 of 2
salame
Italian · medieval
"salted, cured sausage"
a cured sausage, from sale (salt), the preservation method
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salami
English · 1800s
"a cured, seasoned sausage"
adopted directly for the cured sausage
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