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farinheira

farinheira noun: portuguese smoked sausage.

Noun

farinheira (countable and uncountable, plural farinheiras)

  1. Portuguese smoked sausage.
    • As well as salted lard and farinheira (the description “smoked sausage” fails to prepare me adequately for this extremely unusual tangy flour pudding that’s said to have been developed by 16th-century Jews to help them pass as conversos, though, like many Portuguese foods, the modern version is...2026 April 5, Felicity Cloake, “How to make the perfect Portuguese feijoada – recipe”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Apr 2026

Forms of farinheira

pluralfarinheiras

Origin of farinheira

Borrowed from Portuguese farinheira.

Questions about farinheira

What does farinheira mean?
Farinheira means portuguese smoked sausage.
What part of speech is farinheira?
Farinheira is a noun.
What is the plural of farinheira?
The plural of farinheira is farinheiras.

Words near farinheira in the dictionary

  1. Faringees
  2. farings
  3. Farington
  4. farinha
  5. farinhas
  6. farinheira
  7. Farino
  8. farinogram
  9. farinograms
  10. farinograph
  11. farinographic

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