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salume

salume noun: cured or cooked meat or sausage, especially in the Italian style.

Noun

salume (countable and uncountable, plural salumi)

  1. Cured or cooked meat or sausage, especially in the Italian style.
    • The menu is from Emilia-Romagna, in Northern Italy, with […] fans of salume: coppa, mortadella, salami and silky prosciutto di Parma.2007 January 21, “The Hungry Stroller”, in New York Times
    Synonyms:
    charcuterie

Synonyms of salume

Forms of salume

pluralsalumi

Origin of salume

From Italian salume.

Questions about salume

What does salume mean?
Salume means cured or cooked meat or sausage, especially in the Italian style.
What part of speech is salume?
Salume is a noun.
What is the plural of salume?
The plural of salume is salumi.

Words near salume in the dictionary

  1. salugis
  2. saluing
  3. Saluki
  4. Salukis
  5. Salumbar
  6. salume
  7. salumeria
  8. salumerias
  9. salumerie
  10. salumi
  11. salumin

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