pastrami

pastrami
/peuh strah"mee/, n.
a brisket of beef that has been cured in a mixture of garlic, peppercorns, sugar, coriander seeds, etc., then smoked before cooking.
[1935-40; < Yiddish pastrame < Rum pastrama pressed, cured meat; a Balkanism of uncert. orig. (cf. ModGk pastramâs, Serbo-Croatian pastrma), perh. ult. < Turk pastirma, taken as var. of BASTIRMA, equiv. to bastir-, causative s. of bas- press, squeeze + -ma verbal n. suffix]

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