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muffaletta

muffaletta is the alternative form of muffuletta.

Meaning of muffuletta

Noun

muffuletta (countable and uncountable, plural muffulettas)

  1. A type of Sicilian sesame bread.
  2. A type of sandwich, typically made in New Orleans and containing layers of olive salad, mozzarella and meats, made using that bread.
    • The Grinder: Salami, pepperoni and capicola. Other Italian options include Muffuletta (salami, ham and olive salad), Meatball (marinara and Parmesan), Pepperoni Pizzawich (marinara, mozzarella and Parmesan) and Chicken Italiano (marinara and Parmesan).2012 November 7, Florida Times-Union, “Slideshow: Which Wich menu preview”, in The Florida Times-Union, archived from the original on 03 May 2026
  3. A kind of olive salad made with giardiniera.

Forms of muffaletta

pluralmuffalettas

Questions about muffaletta

What is muffaletta the alternative form of?
Muffaletta is the alternative form of muffuletta.

Words near muffaletta in the dictionary

  1. muff pistols
  2. muff up
  3. muff-diver
  4. muff-divers
  5. muff-diving
  6. muffaletta
  7. muffalettas
  8. muffdiver
  9. muffdivers
  10. muffed
  11. muffed up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: muffaletta (page history and authors); muffuletta (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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